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George  JVashington  Flowers 
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ESTABLISHED  BY  THE 
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COLONEL  FLOWERS 


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[DOC.  NO.  I.] 


COMMUNICATION 


FROM  the; 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


TRANSMITTING   THE 


CREDENTIALS  OF  COMMISSIONERS 


PROM 


SOUin  CAROLINA  AND  JIISSISSUTI. 


[Doc.  No.  1.]  i>  ^^ 


THE  FLOWERS  COLLECTIOPI 


Executive  Department,  ") 
February  14,  1861.     j" 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention: 

I  have  the  honor  to  communicate  herewith,  the  credentials  of 
the  Hon.  .Tohn  S.  Preston,  a  Commissioner  duly  appointed  by 
the  Convention  recently  held  in  South  Carolina,  and  who  is 
charged  Avith  the  duty  of  communicating  '/to  the  people  of 
Virginia,  the  causes  which  have  impelled  the  people  of  South 
Carolina  to  withdraw  from  the  United  States,  and  resume  the 
powers  hitherto  granted  by  them  to  the  Government  of  the 
United  States  of  America." 

I  communicate,  also,  herewith,  the  credentials  of  the  Hon. 
Fulton  Anderson,  a  Commissioner  duly  appointed  by  the  Gover- 
nor of  ]\Iississippi,  and  charged  with  the  duty  of  informing  the 
people  of  this  Commonwealth  that  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of 
Mississippi  'Mias  passed  an  act,  calling  a  Convention  of  the 
people  of  the  State  to  consider  the  present  threatening  relations 
of  the  Northern  and  Southern  sections  of  the  United  States,  ag- 
gravated by  the  recent  election  of  a  President  upon  principles  of 
hostility  to  the  States  of  the  South,  and  to  express  the  earnest 
hope  of  the  State  of  Mississippi  that  Virginia  will  cooperate  Avitli 
lier,  in  the  adoption  of  efficient  measures  for  the  common  de- 
fence and  safety  of  the  South." 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


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[Doc.  No.  1.] 


Richmond,  Feb.  13,  18G1. 

His  Excellency  John  Letcher, 

Governor  of  Virginia, 

Sir, — I  have  the  lionor  to  hand  you  my  credentials  as  Com- 
missioner from  the  Government  of  vSonth  Carohiia  to  the  Go- 
vernor and  tlie  Convention  of  the  people  of  Virginia. 

Tlie  object  of  my  mission  is  to  communicate  to  the  people  of 
Virginia  the  causes  which  have  impelled  the  people  of  South 
Carolina  to  withdraw  from  the  United  States  and  resume  the 
powers  Ihtherto  granted  by  them  to  the  Government  of  the 
United  States  of  America. 

Being  accredited  as  well  to  your  Excellency  as  to  the  Con- 
vention, I  venture  to  request  that  you  will  communicate  to  that 
body,  in  such  form  as  you  may  deem  proper,  the  fact  and  the 
purport  of  my  commission. 

With  sentiments  of  perfect  respect,  1  have  the  honor  to  be 
Your  Excellency's 

Obedient  servant, 

JOHN  S.  PRESTON. 


Charleston,  Jan.  19,  18G1. 

To  Hon.  John  S.  Preston: 

Dear  Sir, — By  virtue  of  the  authority  conferred  on  me  by  the 
Convention  of  South  Carolina,  I  appoint  you  a  Commissioner 
from  this  State  to  a  Convention  ordered  to  be  held  by  the  Com- 
monwealth of  Virginia. 

I  am,  dear  sir. 

With  great  respect, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

D.  F.  JAMISON. 


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6  [  Doc.  No.  1.] 

THE  STATE  OF  SOUTH  CAROLINA. 
By  F.  W.  Pickens, Governor  of  the  State  of  South  Carolina: 

Be  it  hwwn,  That  reposing  special  trust  and  confidence  in 
the  abihty,  integrity  and  fitness  of  the  Hon.  .Tohn  S.  Preston,  I 
do  hereby,  in  compHancc  with  the  appointnioiit  made  by  tlie 
President  of  the  Convention  of  the  people  of  this  State,  under 
authoritv  from  that  body,  commission  him,  the  said  .Tolm  S.  Pres- 
ton, to  proceed  to  the  Capital  of  Virginia  to  lay  before  his  Excel- 
lency, the  Governor  of  that  State,  and  the  members  of  the  Con- 
vention to  be  assembled  in  said  State,  the  Ordinance  whereby 
the  State  of  South  Carolina  seceded  from  the  Federal  Union, 
known  as  the  United  States  of  America,  and  respectfully  to  in- 
vite their  cooperation  in  the  formatioji  of  a  Southern  Con- 
federacy. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  die  seal  of  die  State  at  the 

City  of  Charleston  this  twenty-eighth  day  of  January, 

[L.  S.]    in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  tliousand  eight  hundred  and 

sixty-one  and  in  the  eighty-fifth  year  of  the  Sovereignty 

and  Lidepcndencc  of  the  State  of  South  Carolina. 

F.  VV.  PICKENS. 

By  the  Governor, 
James  A.  Duffus, 

Deputy  Sec^y  State. 


THE  STATE  OF  SOUTH  CAROLINA. 

At  a  Convention  of  the  people  of  the  State  of  South  Carolina 
begun  and  holden  at  Columbia,  on  the  seventeenth  day  of  De- 
cember, in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand  eight  iumdred 
and  sixty,  and  thence  continued  by  adjournment  to  Charleston, 
and  tliere,  by  divers  adjournments,  to  the  twentieth  day  of  De- 
cember in  the  same  year. 

AN  ORDINANCE, 

To  dissolve  the  union  between  the  State  of  South  Carolina 
and  otlier  States  united  with  her  under  the  compact  entitled 
"The  Constitution  of  tlie  United  States  of  America." 

We,  tlie  people  of  the  State  of  South  Carolina,  in  Convention 


[Doc.  No.  1.]  Y 

assemWed,  do  declare  and  ordain,  and  it  is  hereby  declared  and 
ordained,  that  the  ordinance  adopted  by  iis  in  (/onvcntion,  on 
the  twenty-third  day  of  May,  in  the  year  of  onr  Lord,  one  thou- 
sand seven  hundred  and  eighty-ciglit,  whereby  the  Constitu- 
tion of  the  United  States  of  America  was  ratified,  and  also,  all 
acts  and  parts  of  acts  of  the  General  Asscmby  of  this  State,  rati- 
fying amendments  of  the  said  Constitution,  are  hereby  repealed, 
and  that  the  l^iion  now  subsisting  between  South  Carolina  and 
other  States,  under  the  name  of  "The  United  States  of  Ame- 
rica," is  hereby  dissolved. 

[L.  S.] 


Resolution  passed  by  the  Convention  of  the  people  of  the 
State  of  Mississippi,  Januajy  19th,  1861: 

Resolved,  That  the  Convention  confirm  the  appointments  of  Commissioners  here- 
tofore made  by  the  Governor  of  this  State,  under  a  resolution  of  the  Legislature 
of  Mississippi,  approved  30th  day  of  November,  1860. 

Attest:  F.  A.  POPE, 

Secretary  of  the  Convention. 


STATE  OF  MISSISSIPPI. 

John  W.  Pettus,  Governor  of  the  State  of  Mississippi, 
To  His  Excellency, 

The  Governor  of  the  State  of  Virginia —  Greeting: 

Be  it  Iniou-71,  Tliat,  reposing  special  trust  and  confidence  in 
the  abihty,  integrity  and  fitness  of  the  lion.  Fulton  Anderson, 
I  liave,  in  compliance  with  a  resolution  passed  by  the  liCgisla- 
turc  of  this  State,  on  the  30th  day  of  November,  A.  D.  1860, 
appointed,  and  by  these  presents  do  appoint  liim  a  Commis- 
sioner from  Mississippi,  to  proceed  to  the  CapiUil  of  Virginia,  to 
inform  the  people  of  that  Commonwealth,  througli  their  Execu- 
tive, that  the  Legislature  of  this  State  has  passed  an  act  calling 


8  [Doc.  No.  1.] 

a  Convention  of  the  people  of  the  State,  to  consider  tlie  present 
llireatenin"  relations  of  tlie  rsorthern  and  Southern  sections  of 
the  Tnited  States — aggravated  by  the  recent  election  of  a  Presi- 
dent upon  principles  of  hostihty  to  the  States  of  the  South,  and 
to  express  the  earnest  hope  of  jMississippi  that  Virginia  will 
cooperate  witli  her  in  the  adoption  of  efficient  measures  for  the 
connnon  defence  and  safety  of  the  South. 

(liven  under  my  hand,  and  the  Great  Seal  of  the 
[L.  S.]     State  hereunto  affixed,  at  the  City  of  Jackson,  this 
the  5lh  day  of  December,  A.  D.  1S60. 


JOHN  J.  PETTUS. 


Bij  the  Governor, 

C.  A.  BuouciiiER,  Secretary  of  State. 


[DOC.  NO.  IL] 


COMMUlSriCATIOlSr 


FROM 


HON.   HENRY  L.  BENNING 


TO    THE 


PRESIDENT  OF  THE   CONVENTION, 


TRANSMITTIXG    HIS 


CKEDENTIALS  AS  COMMISSIOXER 


FROM 


aEonai^. 


[Doo.  No.  2.] 


Richmond,  February  14,  1861. 
Sir,— I  beg  leave  to  present  to  you  the  commission  wliich  ac- 
companies this  note,  and  to  request  you  to  lay  it  before  the  Con- 
vention. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be,  sir, 

Your  most  obedient  humble  servant, 

HENRY  L.  BENNING. 

To  the  Hon.  John  Janney, 

President  of  the  Convention. 


State  of  Georgia  : 

Whereas,  the  people  of  Georgia,  in  Convention  assembled, 
have  authorized  the  appointment  of  a  commission  to  the  States 
of  Delaware,  Maryland,  Virginia,  Tennessee,  North  Carolina, 
Kentudvy,  Missouri  and  Arkansas,  to  present  to  the  Legislatures 
or  Conventions,  or  in  the  event  neither  shall  be  in  session,  to 
the  Governors  of  said  States,  the  Ordinance  of  Secession  of 
Georgia,  and  to  invite  cooperation  with  her  and  other  seceding 
States,  in  the  formation  of  a  Southern  Confederacy. 

Be  it  therefore  known,  that  I,  the  President  of  said  Conven- 
tion, do  hereby  appoint  Hemy  L.  Benning  as  Commissioner  to 
the  State  of  Virginia,  then  and  there  to  act  in  conformity  to  said 

resolution.  i    ,  •      i     on.u 

In  witness  whereof  I  have  hereto  set  my  hand  this  the  ^.nn 

day  of  January,  1S61. 

GEO.  W.  CRAWFORD, 

President. 
Attest:         A.  R.  Lamar, 

Secretary. 


[DOC.  NO.  III.] 


AN 


OHDIISr^NOE 


TO  DISSOLYE  THE  UNION 


BETWEEN 


THE   STATE   OF  GEOIIGIA 


AXD 


OTHER  STATES,  &c. 


[Doc.  No.  3.] 


AN   ORDINANCE 

To  dissolve  the  Union  between  the  State  of  Georgia  and  other 
States  united  with  her  under  a  compact  of  Government  enti- 
tled ^Hhe  Constitution  of  the  United  States  of  America:''^ 

We,  the  people  of  the  State  of  Georgia,  in  Convention  assem- 
bled, do  declare  and  ordain,  and  it  is  hereby  declared  and  or- 
dained, that  the  Ordinance  adopted  by  the  people  of  the  State  of 
Georgia  in  Convention  on  the  second  day  of  Jannary,  in  the 
year  of  our  Lord  Seventeen  Hundred  and  Eighty- Eight,  when 
the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  of  America  was  assented 
to,  ratified  and  adopted;  and  also,  all  acts  and  parts  of  acts  of  the 
General  Assembly  of  this  State,  ratifying  and  adopting  amend- 
ments of  the  said  Constitution,  arc  hereby  repealed,  rescinded, 
and  abrogated. 

We  do  further  declare  and  ordain,  that  the  Union  now  subsist- 
ing between  the  State  of  Georgia  and  other  States,  under  the 
name  of  the  United  States  of  America,  is  hereby  dissolved,  and 
that  the  State  of  Georgia  is  in  the  full  possession  and  exercise  of 
all  those  rights  of  sovereignty  which  belong  and  appertain  to  a 
free  and  independent  State, 

Attest:  A.  R.  LAMAR,  Secretary. 


[DOC.  m.  ly.] 


REF»ORT 


OF   THE 


COMMIHEE  OF  ELECTIONS 


ON    THE 


RETURNS  OF  THE  VOTES 


FOR    AND    AGAINST 


REFEREING  THE  ACTION  OF  THE  CONVENTION  TO  THE  PEOPLE. 


[Doc.  No.  4.] 


REPORT. 


The  Committee  of  Elections  have  examined  the  returns  of  the 
number  of  persons  who  have  voted  for  and  against  referring  the 
action  of  this  Convention  to  the  people,  as  provided  by  the  act 
of  the  General  Assembly,  passed  January  14th,  1861,  entitled 
'^an  act  to  provide  for  electing  members  of  a  Convention,  and 
to  convene  the  same;"  and  beg  leave  to  report  that  in  all,  except 
the  following  counties,  to  wit:  Barbour,  Boone,  Braxton,  Bu- 
chanan, Cabell,  Elizabeth  City,  Greene,  Logan,  McDowell, 
Prince  William,  Putnam,  Upshur,  Wayne,  Wise,  Wyoming 
and  York,  from  which  returns  have  not  been  received,  the 
whole  number  of  votes  cast  was  one  hundred  and  forty  thousand 
five  hundred  and  eleven,  orVhich  ninety-six  thousand  six  hun- 
dred and  eighty-four  were  cast  for  referring  to  the  people,  and 
forty-three  thousand  eight  hundred  and  twenty-seven  against  re- 
ferring to  the  people,  showing  a  majority  as  far  as  heard  from  of 
fifty-two  thousand  eight  hundred  and  fifty-seven  for  referring  to 
the  people. 

The  Committee  will  make  a  further  and  final  report  upon  this 
subject  on  receiving  the  returns  from  the  delinquent  counties. 

The  foregoing  result  is  derived  from  the  returns  received  by 
the  President  of  the  Convention,  and  the  Governor  of  the  Com- 
monwealth. 

A.  F.  RAYMOND, 

C/iairman  of  Committee  of  Elections. 


[DOC.  NO.  Y.l 


KEFORT 


OF   THE 


COMMITTEE  OF  ELECTI05S 


SHEWING   WHO    ARE    ELECTED 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  CONVENTION. 


[Doc.  No.  5.] 


REPORT. 


The  Committee  of  Elections  have  had  under  consideration 
the  evidence  of  election  of  members  to  the  Convention,  and  re 
port  that  the  following  persons  appear  to  have  been  duly  elected 
there  to  J  to  wit: 

Accomac William  H.  B.  Cnstis. 

Albemarle i  Valentine  W   Southall, 

\  James  P.  Hoicombe. 

Alexa7idria George  W.  Brent. 

Alleghany  and  Bath Thomas  Sitlington. 

Amelia  and  Nottoway Lewis  E.  Harvie. 

Amherst Samuel  M.  Garland. 

Appomattox Lewis  D.  Isbcll. 

^^  r  A.  H.  II.  Stuart, 

Augusta \  Joh"  B.  Baldwin, 

/George  Baylor. 

Barbour Samuel  Woods. 

{William  L.  Goggin, 
John  Goode,  Jr. 
(  Edmund  Pendleton, 
Berkeley ^  Allen  C.  Hammond. 

,  _     .  S  Fleming  B.  Miller, 

Botetourt  and  Oraig ^  William  W.  Boyd. 

Braxton,  Nicholas,  Clay  and  Webster  Benjanun  W.  Byrne. 

Brooke Campbell  Tarr. 

Brunswick  '.  '.  ........  .' .' ." .' .' ." ......  J''""'ies  Ji.  Mallory. 

Buckingham William  W.  Forbes. 

Cabell  William  McComas. 

r.       j"j, C  John  M.  Speed, 

^(^nipbell I  Charles  R.  Slaughter. 

Caroline Edmund  T.  Morris. 

Carroll F.  L.  Hale. 

Charles  City,  James  City  and  ■^'^^^  John  Tvlcr 

Kent 3 

Charlotte Wood  Bouldin. 

Chesterfield James  H.  Cox. 

Clarke.  .  .* Hugh  M.  Nelson. 

Culpeper James  Barbour. 

Cumberland  and  Powliatan William  C.  Scott. 

Dinwiddie James  Boisseau. 


4  [Doc.  No.  5.] 

Doddrids^e  and  Ti/Ier C.J.  Stuart. 

^^'^f!r^'  S'^^'  TFaru^/c/.-,  York  ««^/lcharIes  K.  Mallory. 

\yillia?}isOurg' 3  ^ 

Essex  and  King  4'  Queett Richard  H.  Cox. 

Fairfax William  H.  Dulaiiy. 

„         .  Clxobcrt  E.  Scott, 

Fauquier ->  j,^j^,^  ^   ^j^^^ 

Fayette  and  Raleigh Henry  L.  Gillespie. 

Fluvanna James  M.  Strange. 

,1      ,,■  Oubal  A.  Early, 

^'"""'^^"^ i  Peter  Saunders,  Sr. 

Floyd Harvey  Deskins. 

r,     1    ■  ,  C  Robert  Y.  Conrad, 

Frederick \}^mes  Marshall. 

Giles Maniliiis  (/hapman. 

Gloucester John  T.  Seawcll. 

Gilmer,  Wirt  and  Calhoun C.  B.  (?onrad. 

Goochland Walter  D.  Leake. 

Grayson Wm.  C.  Parks. 

Greene  and  Orange Jeremiah  Morton. 

Greenbrier Samuel  Price. 

Greenesville  and  Sussex J.  R.  Chambliss. 

Halifax C  Thomas  S.Flournoy, 

-'  /James  C.  liruce. 

Hamnshire  S  Edward  M.  Armstrong, 

Uainpsnue ^  ^^^^^^^^  p^^^j^ 

Hancock George  Md^.  Porter. 

Hanover George  W.  Richardson. 

Harfly Tiiomas  ]\h\slin. 

rr      .  CJohn  S.  Carlile, 

Harrison |  Benjamin  Wilson. 

Henrico ' Williams  C.  Wickham. 

Henry Peyton  (Jravely. 

Highland George  W.  Hull. 

Jsle  of  Wight Robert  H.  Whitfield. 

Jackson  and  Roane Franklin  P.  Turner. 

_  „  (  Alfred  M.  Barbour, 

Merson I  Logan  Osburn. 

Kanawha |  George  W.  Summers, 

(^Spicer  Patrick. 

King  George  and  Stafford Edward  Waller. 

King  Williani Fendall  Gregory,  Jr. 

Lancaster  and  Northurnhcrland Addison  Hall. 

^t'^ John  D.  Sharjv 

Lee  and  Scott Peter  C.  Johnston 

Leicis Caleb  Boggess. 

Logan,  Boone  and  Wyoming James  Lawson. 


[Doc.  No.  5.]  5 

Loudoun CJohiiJanney 

(^John  A.  Carter. 

■Louisa William  M.  Ambler. 

Lunenburg W.  J.  Neblett. 

Madison Angus  R,  Blakey. 

.  CAlpheus  F.  Haymond, 

^'^''''^'* t  Epiiraim  B.  Hall. 

Marshall James  Burlcy . 

Mason James  H.  Couch. 

Matthcvs  and  Middlesex Robert  L.  Montague. 

Mecklenburg Thomas  F.  Goode. 

Mercer Napoleon  B.  French. 

,.             ,.  C  Waitman  T.  Willey, 

Monongalia iMarshall  M.  Dent. 

Monroe 3  Allen  T.  Caperton, 

\  John  Echols. 

Montgomery Wm.  Ballard  Preston. 

Morgan Johnson  Orrick. 

Nanscmond John  R.  Kilby. 

Nelson Frederick  M.  Cabell. 

Norfolk  City George  Blow,  Jr. 

AT    /•  11  r>^,,„/„  C  William  White, 

horfolk  County |  j^   HoUaday. 

Northampton Miers  VV.  Fisher. 

^. .  rSherrard  Clemens, 

^'"^ \  Chester  I).  Hubbard. 

Page Peter  B.  Borst. 

Patrick Samuel  G.  Staples. 

Pendleton Henry  H.  Masters. 

PocahoiHas Paul  McNeil. 

Petersburg Thomas  Branch. 

Pittsylvania  i  ^^^i'^*'-^"^  T.  Sutherlin, 

l^ittsyliama  ••••••• |  William  M.  Tredway. 

Pleasants  and  Ritchie Cyrus  Hall. 

Preston  ^  William  G   Brown, 

^  James  C.  McGrew. 

Prince  Edward John  T.  Thornton. 

Prince  William Eppa  Hunton. 

Princess  Anne Henr}^  A.  Wise. 

Prince  George  aiid  Surry Timothy  Rives. 

Pulaski Bcnjann'n  F.  Wysor. 

Putnam James  W.  Hogc. 

Randolph  and  Tucker John  N.  Hughes. 

RappaJiannock Horatio  G.  Moffett. 

r  William  H.  Macfarland, 

Richmond  City ^  Marmaduke  Johnson, 

(^  George  W.  Randolph. 
4 


6  [Doc.  No.  5.] 


Riclnnond  Coxinty  i^'  Westmoreland.     John  Critchcr. 

Rofuwke Ceor^e  P.  Tayloe. 

r>    11     1  S  Samuel  I\IcD.  ]\Ioore, 

Jiockbriuorc i  T  „  , .     I>    1^ 

»  (  Jaiiios  li.  Uoriiian. 


(  Saimiol  A.  CoUhian, 
<  John  F.  Lewis, 
(^  Algernon  S.  Gray. 


Rockingham 

"    '"ray. 

RusscU  and  JMsc U'illiam  B.  Aston. 

Scott Colbert  C.  Fugate. 

Shenandoah i  1''''T\  R'^  ^Jl'"'^"^^' 

(^  Raphael  ]\I.  Conn. 

Smyth .lames  W.  Shefley. 

Southampton John  J.  Kindred. 

Spotsylvania John  L.  Marye,  Sr. 

Taylor John  S.  Burdetl. 

TazeweU,  McDowell  andBucha7ia?i.\Y^^^^^^^^y-^''''}^^ 

(^oanuiel  Ji.  draliam. 

Upshur George  W.  Berlin. 

Warren Robert  H.  Turner. 

Washington -[  ^^^^^^  ^^^'''"k '„ 

'='  ^  John  A.  Campbell. 

Wayne Burwell  Spurlock. 

Wetzel Leonard  S.  Hall. 

Wood John  J.  Jackson. 

Wythe Robert  C.  Kent. 

The  certificates  of  election  produced  are  herewith  filed,  except 
those  filed  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Conniion wealth. 

Joiix  D.  Sharp  is  returned  elected  from  the  county  of  Lee, 
but  his  seat  in  the  Convention  is  contested  by  M.  B.  I).  Lane, 
of  said  county  of  Lee,  and  his  petition  and  notice  of  contest 
have  been  referred  to  the  Committee  for  examination  and  deci- 
sion, which  contest  has  not  yet  been  finally  acted  upon  by  the 
Committee. 

The  Committee,  therefore,  report  that  the  said  John  D.  Sharp, 
liavi ng  the  official  return  of  election  for  said  county  of  Lee,  is 
prima  facie  entitled  to  occupy  a  seat  in  the  Convention,  until 
otherwise  ordered  by  the  Convention,  on  the  final  decision  of 
said  contest. 

The  Committee  will  report  upon  said  contest  as  soon  as  cir- 
cumstances will  allow. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 

A.  F.  IIAYMOND, 

Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Electio?is. 


[DOC.  NO.  YL] 


AN 


ORDIN-A^NCE 


TOUCHING 


CONTESTED    ELECTIONS, 


PASSED  BY  TUE  CONVENTION 


FEBRUARY   21,   1861. 


[Doc.  No.  6.] 


AN  ORDINANCE  TOUCHING  CONTESTED  ELECriONS.     ' 

Whereas,  the  General  Assembly,  on  the  14th  day  of  January 
1861,  passed  an  act  entitled  ^^ an  act  for  electing  members  of  a 
Convention,  and  to  convene  the  same;"  and  whereas,  by  the 
eighfh  section  of  said  act  it  is  provided  that  "in  the  case  of  a 
contested  election,  the  same  shall  be  governed  in  all  respects  by 
the  existing  laws  in  regard  to  contested  elections  in  the  House  of 
Delegates,  unless  odierwise  ordered  by  tlie  Convention."  And 
Avhereas,  it  seems  to  the  Convention  that  the  said  existing  laws 
in  regard  to  contested  elections  in  the  House  of  Delegates  are  not 
suitable  or  proper  for  the  government  of  the  Convention  in  cases 
of  contested  elections,  the  Convention  deems  it  necessary  to  pre- 
scribe proper  rules  for  cases  of  contested  elections  for  seats  therein. 

It  is  therefore  ordained  by  the  Convention,  That  the  existing 
laws  in  regard  to  contested  elections  in  the  House  of  Delegates 
shall  not  be  applied  to  or  govern  in  cases  of  contested  elections 
for  seats  in  this  Convention. 

It  is  further  ordained  by  the  Convention,  That  any  person 
contesting  the  election  of  another  as  a  member  of  this  Conven- 
tion, shall,  within  a  reasonable  time,  after  the  day  on  which  the 
election  was  had,  give  to  the  other  notice  thereof  in  writing,  and 
a  list  of  the  votes  he  disputes  with  his  objections  to  each,  and  of 
the  votes  improperly  rejected,  for  which  he  will  contend.  If  he 
object  to  the  legality  of  the  election,  or  eligibility  of  the  person 
elected,  the  notice  shall  set  forth  the  objections;  and  the  person 
whose  election  is  contested  shall,  within  a  reasonable  time,  after 
receiving  such  notice,  deliver  to  his  adversary  a  like  list  of  the 
votes  which  he  disputes,  with  his  objections,  if  any  he  has,  to 
the  eligibility  of  the  contesting  party.  Each  party  shall  append 
to  the  list  of  votes  lie  intends  to  dispute  or  claim,  an  oath  to  the 
following  effect:  <' I  do  swear  that  I  have  reason  to  believe  the 
persons  whose  names  are  above  mentioned  are  not  legally  quali- 
fied, (or  are  qualified  as  the  case  may  be)  to  vote  in  the  county 
of  (or  corporation,  or  district  of  )." 

The  contesting  party,  and  the  person  whose  right  is  contested, 
shall  respectively  begin  to  take  depositions  within  a  reasonable 
time  after  the  delivery  of  the  notice  aforesaid  by  the  contesting 
party;  and  they  shall  finish  taking  the  san^e  in  a  reasonable  time 
after  deliver)^  of  such  notice.  The  word  reasonable  as  used  in 
this  ordinance  shall  be  construed  with  reference  to  the  circum- 
stances attending  each  case,  the  condition  of  the  parties  and  the 
fact  that  this  ordinance  has  not  been  adopted  until  now,  so  as  to 
prevent,  as  far  as  practicable,  surprise  to  the  parties. 

This  ordinance  shall  apply  to  contests  now  pending,  as  well 
as  those  which  may  hereafter  be  commenced. 


[DOC.  NO.  VIL] 


COMMUNICATION 


PROM    THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


TRANSMITTING   A 


REPORT  FROM  THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL 


IJJ  RESPONSE  TO  A  RESOLITIO\  OF  THE  rOXVE\TIO.\,  CALLIXG  FOR  L\FOR- 
3IATI0.\  COACERMSti 


THE  MILITIA  AND  VOLUNTEERS  OF  THE  STATE,  iC. 


[Doc.  No.  7.] 


Executive  Department,  "> 
February  27,  1861.      j 

Getitlemeji  of  the  Cofiventio7i: 

In  response  to  your  resolution,  adopted  on  tlic  20t1i  instant, 
calling  for  information  as  to  "the  number  of  the  enrolled  mili- 
tia, and  of  the  volunteers  of  the  State;  the  number  of  compa- 
nies that  have  been  supplied  with  arms;  their  kind  and  descrip-' 
tion,"  I  communicate  herewith  a  report  from  the  Adjutant  Ge- 
neral. 

Respectfully, 

«  JOHN  LETCHER. 


[Doc.  No.  7.] 


REPORT. 


Adjutant  General's  Office, 
February  27,1861. 

To  Ids  Excellency  John  Letcher, 

Governor  of  Virginia: 


} 


Sir, — I  have  the  honor  to  report  the  information  called  for  by- 
resolution  of  the  Convention  of  the  21st  instant. 

The  military  force  of  the  State  consists  of  5  divisions,  28 
brigades,  5  regiments  of  cavalry,  5  of  artillery,  3  regiments 
and  4  battalions  of  uniformed  and  armed  vohmteers,  and  19T 
regiments  of  infantry  of  the  line.  The  annual  consolidated  re- 
turn up  to  1st  October,  18(30,  being  made  up  from  the  latest  bri- 
gade returns,  gives  an  aggregate  of  only  143,255,  officers,  non- 
commissioned officers  and  privates,  although  there  are  undoubt- 
edly not  less  then  200,000  men  in  the  State  subject  to  militia 
duty.  This  is  the  result  of  negligence  on  the  part  of  enrolhng 
officers,  and  the  failure  of  some  regiments  to  make  any  returns 
at  all. 

volunteer  force. 

There  are  now  in  commission  95  troops  of  cavalry,  26  compa- 
nies of  artillery,  112  companies  of  light  infantry  and  114  com- 
panies of  riflemen. 

Of  Cavalry: 

7  troops  are  armed  with  sabres  and  percussion  cavalry  pistols. 
2     ''       with  sabres  and  cavalrv  musketoons. 

32  ''         ''         ''       ''     revolvers. 
21     <^         '^        '<      only— and 

33  are  unarmed. 

Of  the  Artillery: 

11  companies  are  armed  with  6- pounder  field  guns,  with  car- 

riages and  implements  complete,  and  artillery  swords. 
1  with  6-pounder  field  guns,  swords  and  Sappers  and  Miners' 

muskctonns. 
1  with  6- pounder  field  guns,  swords  and  artillon,'  musketoons. 
1  with  six  12-ix)under  howitzers  and  ligiit  artillery  swords — 

and 

12  are  unanned. 


6  [Doc.  No.  7.] 

Of  the  Light  Infantry: 

6  companies  arc  armed  with  rillc  muskets. 

75  "  *'       "         "     percussion  muskets. 
26          <'  "       ''        "     flintlock  '^ 

1  "  **    without  arms. 

Of  the  Riflemen: 

4  companies  are  armed  with  long  range  rifles,  with  sword  at- 
tachment. 
24  companies  with  pcrcussioned  rifles. 
10  companies  with  flint  lock  rifles,  and 

76  companies  are  without  arms. 

All  tlie  armed  companies  are  uniformed.  The  numerical 
strength  of  the  armed  force  is: 

Cavalry,  with  sahres  and  pistols,  or  sabres  only,  2,547 
Unarmed,  about  -  -  -  1,650 

4,197 

1,4S0 

5.780 

5,250 

Making  an  aggregate  of  -  -  -     10, 707 

The  military  spirit  which  pervades  the  State,  as  evidenced  by 
the  correspondence  of  this  oflice,  would,  I  believe,  in  case  of 
emergency,  double  the  militia  force,  by  men  above  45,  perfectly 
able  and  more  than  willing  to  bear  arms  if  the  Slate  shall  need 
their  services. 

Veiy  respectfully,  your  obedient  .servant, 

WM.  H.  RICHARDSON,  A.  G. 


Artillery — Armed  companies,    -  -  -      820 

Unarmed     "  -  -  -      660 

Light  Infantry — Companies  with  rifled  muskets,  400 
Companies  with  percussion  do.  3,S30 
Companies  with  flint  lock  do.  1,300 
Companies  unarmed,   -  -      250 


Riflemen — Companies  with  long  range  rifles,  -  330 
Companies  with  percussioned  rifles,  1 ,320 
Companies  unarmed,  -  -  3,600 


[DOC.  m,  yiiL] 


HEPOKT 


OF    THE 


AUDITOR  OF  PUBLIC  ACCOUNTS, 


SHOWING   THE 


AGGREGATE  NUMBER  OF  PERSONS  RETURNED  DELINQUENT  BY  THE 
SHERIFFS  OF  THE  COMMON  U'EALTH, 


FOR    THE 


X0X-PAY3IENT  OF  TAXES  FOR  1860; 


ALSO 


THE  AGGREGATE  AMOUNT  OF  SUCH  TAXES. 


[Doc.  No.  8.] 


AUDITOR'S    REPORT. 


Auditor's  Office,  Richmond,  Va.,  ") 
March  1,  1861.       j" 

Hon.  John  Janney, 

President  of  the  Convention: 

Sir, — The  following  resohition  of  the  Convention,  adopted  on 
the  20th  of  Februaiy,  has  been  under  consideration,  to  wit: 

"Resolved,  That  the  Auditor  of  Pubhc  Accounts  be  requested 
to  furnish  this  Convention  a  statement  showing  the  aggregate 
number  of  persons  returned  dehnquent  l)y  the  sheriffs  of  the 
different  counties  of  the  CommonweaUli,  lor  the  non-payment 
of  the  taxes  for  the  year  1860;  also, -the  aggregate  amount  of 
taxes  on  such  dehnquent  hst." 

By  the  14th  section  of  chapter  thirty-six  of  fie  Code,  it  is 
provided  that  the  ''sheriff"  or  other  collector,  after  ascertaining 
which  of  the  taxes  assessed  in  his  county  cannot  be  collected, 
shall,  as  soon  as  practicable,  in  each  year,  after  the  first  day  of 
October,  make  out  lists"  of  those  delinquent.  It  is  further  pro- 
vided by  the  same  chapter,  that  the  list  of  taxes  so  returned, 
shall  be  credited  to  such  sheriff"  or  collected  by  the  Auditor,  if 
the  list  be  presented  before  the  1st  day  of  May  next,  after  the 
taxes  were  assessed. 

It  will  be  perceiA^ed  that  the  delinquent  lists  of  taxes  assessed 
in  1860,  are  not  required  by  law  to  be  presented  prior  to  the  30th 
day  of  April,  1861.  In  practice  the  return  of  the  lists  are  fre- 
quently deferred  for  months,  and  even  years,  after  the  time  de- 
signated by  law. 

In  consequence  of  the  delinquents  in  the  taxes  of  1860,  not 
being  due  at  this  office,  and  of  the  comparatively  small  number 
returned,  I  have  found  it  impracticable  to  comply  literally  with 
the  resolution.  I  have,  however,  adopted  the  returns  lor  the 
year  18.58  as  being  more  complete  than  that  of  any  succeeding 
year,  and  enlarged  upon  the  recpiest  of  the  Convention,  and 
have  given  in  detail  by  counties  and  corporations,  and  in  the 
aggregate,  not  only  the  number  returned  delinquent,  but  the 


4  [Doc.  No.  8.] 

number  assessed  with  taxes,  and  llie  amount  of  taxes  on  perso- 
nal property  returned  delinquent. 

To  give  a  more  general  view  of  the  -whole  subject.  I  have  also 
appended  a  table  for  the  year  1S5T,  showing  the  wlmle  nnmber 
of  persons  assessed  with  (axes,  the  number  returned  delin(|uent, 
and  the  rate  per  cent,  whidi  the  delinquents  l)ear  to  the  whole 
numlier  assessed,  arranged  by  geographical  districts. 

I  trust,  tiiat  wiiile  I  am  unable  to  comply  with  the  resolution 
of  the  Convention  in  terms,  that  the  tables  here  presented  may 
be  of  some  service. 

I  am^  very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

J.  M.  BENxXETT, 
Auditor  of  Public  Accounts. 


[Doc.  No.  8.] 


TABLE 

Showwg  the  total  number  of  trhite  male  inhabitants  i?i  the  State 
of  Virsji-inia,  assessed  iri(h  a  capitation  tax  for  the  year  1858; 
and  the  total  number  of  those  so  assessed,  irho  vere  returned 
delinquent  for  the  non-payment  of  said  tax.  Shoiring  also 
the  amount  of  tax  on  personal  property  returned  delinquent 
for  the  non-payment  thereof ,  for  the  year  1858: 


NAME  OF  THE  COrNTY  AND  CORPORA- 
TION. 


Allegbauy  .  . . 

Amelia 

Albemarle  . . . 
Amherst  .... 
Alexandria  . . 
Accomac  .... 
Appomattox  . 

Augusta 

Barbour 

Bath 

Braxton 

Bedford 

Berkeley 

Brooke  

Boone 

Botetourt  ... 
Buchanan  .  .  . 
Buckingham  . , 
Brunswick.  . . 

Cabell 

Clay 

Craig 

Calhoun 

Campbell 

Charles  Citv. . . 
Clarke  ....... 

Charlotte 

Caroline 

Carroll 

Chesterfield. .  . 

Culpeper 

Cumberland  . . 
Dinwiddle  .  .  .  . 
Doddridge. . . . 

Essex 

Elizabeth  City. 

Fairfax 

Fauquier 


Total  number  o! 
white  male  in 
habitanis  over 
21  years  of  ape 
not  exempt 
from  taxation 
for  ItoS. 


Carried  forward. 

6 


862 

659 
2,617 
1,706 
2,183 
2,345 

915 
4,210 
1,686 

627 
1,142 


Number  of  white 
males  over  21 
years  of  age 
reluriaed  de 
linquent  for 
non-paymon  t 
of  capitation 
tax  for  1858. 


267 
53 
363 
355 
979 
435 
172 
735 
169 
107 
234 


Amount  of  tax 
on  pergonal 
prop  erly  re- 
turned delin- 
quent for  the 
non  -  payment 
thereof  for  the 
year  1858. 


115  40 
12  49 
92  94 
49  40 

329  45 
41  45 
15  90 

141  11 
46  98 
18  36 
38  46 


2,966 

324 

89  61 

1,762 

380 

69  93 

998 

104 

19  58 

682 

49 

9  66 

1,713 

401 

98  11 

460 

53 

11  26 

1,288 

256 

28  75 

1,084 

171 

27  32 

1,389 

106 

21  61 

318 

37 

6  05 

633 

98 

13  70 

444 

56 

19  38 

2,731 

484 

237  93 

435 

57 

802 

97 

1  14 

1,022 

109 

15  91 

1,493 

197 

57  37 

1,405 

811 

38  10 

1,772 

824 

35  80 

1,<I73 

284 

39  17 

665 

1,072 

107 

107  55 

840 

154 

90  25 

724 

69 

33  12 

459 

67 

31  71 

1,789 

468 

161  44 

2,276 

693 

132  13 

61,247 

9,255 

|i2,098  52 

[Doc.  No.  8.] 


NAME  OF  THE  COl'NTy  AND  CORPORA- 
TION. 


Brought  forwani 

Fayette 

Franklin 

Frederick 

Floyd 

Fluvanna 

Grayson 

Greenbrier 

Greene 

Greencsville 

Giles 

Gilmer 

Gloucester 

(looeliland      

Halifiix 

Ilaini)sliire 

Hancock  

Hanover 

Hardy 

Harrison 

Henrico 

Henry 

Highland 

Isle  of  Wight 

Jackson  

James  City 

Jefferson 

Kanawlia 

King  George 

King  &  Queen 

King  William 

Lancaster 

Lee 

Lewis 

Logan  

Loudoun  

Louisa 

Lunenliurg 

Madison 

Marion 

Marslmll 

Mason 

Mattliews 

Mecklenburg 

Mercer 

Middlesex 

McDowell 

Monongalia 

Monroe 

Montgomery 

Morgan 

Carried  forward. . 


Total  numl)er  of 
white  male  in- 
haliitant!)  over 
21  years  of  at:f 
not  e  X  e  iii  \>  t 
from  taxation 
for  1S5S. 


Number  of  white 
males  over  21 
years  of  age 
returned  de 
linquent  for 
non-pa  ymen  t 
of  capitation 
tax  for  1S%S. 


61,247 

HS-t 

2,ti27 

2,55.-) 

l,:57ti 

l,iKS7 

l.:i:Jl 

2,130 

641 

375 

1,1  u8 

582 

901) 

8t;2 

2,37'.> 

2,415 

8.^5 

1,305 

1,(505 

2,557 

2,341 

1,228 

82'.t 

l,n37 

1,441 

244 

1,8',15 

2,552 

500 

888 

573 

397 

1,777 

1,252 

708 

3,102 

1,400 

930 

944 

2,352 

1,954 

2,022 

701 

1,581 

1,189 

477 

248 

2,405 

1,958 

1,520 

745 


69,004 


9,255 
222 
298 
409 
151 
137 
187 
400 
148 

25 
277 

92 

183 

209 

480 

135 

247 

96 

529 

650 

95 

99 

80 

175 

21 

343 

789 

65 

100 

25 
632 
201 

62 
544 
140 
205 
108 
451 
329 
272 
115 
281 
202 

83 

54 
225 
397 
294 
108 


11,392 


Amount  of  taX 
on  perso  nal 
property  re- 
turned delin- 
quent for  the 
non  -  payment 
thereof  for  the 
year  1S5S. 


$2,098  62 
59   10 

153  77 
26  42 
15  29 
18  91 

58  02 

14  69 
1  66 

52  08 
29  36 

75  02 
103  20 

165  38 

8  38 
51  90 

59  11 

166  49 
255  09 

15  66 

9  95 
3  96 

50  96 

3  26 

42  50 

2U8  05 

1  83 

2  38 


125  37 

41  40 

94  02 

22  26 

79  11 

6  00 

103  82 

59  93 

70  34 

125  57 

64  46 

3  68 

8  82 

43  36 

143  89 

62  41 


$2,706  86 


[Doc.  No.  8.] 


NAME  OF  THE  COl'NTY  AND  CORPORA- 
TION. 


Brouf^ht  forward. 

Nansemond 

Nelson 

New  Kent 

Kicliolas 

Norfolk  County 

Northampton 

Northumberland 

Nottoway 

Orange 

Ohio 

Page 

Patrick 

Pleasant.'' 

Pendleton 

Preston 

Pittsylvania 

Pocahontas 

Powhatan 

Prince  Edward 

Prince  George 

Princess  Anne , 

Prince  William 

Pula.ski 

Putnam 

Raleigh 

Randolph 

Rappahannock 

Richmond 

Ritchie 

Roane 

Roanoke 

Rockbridge 

Rockingham 

Rus.-ell 

Stafford 

Shenandoah  

Scott  

Spotsylvania 

Southampton 

Smyth 

Surry 

Sussex 

Taylor 

Tazewell 

Tucker 

Tyler 

Upshur 

"Warren 

Warwick 

Washington 


Tot;il  mimber  of' 
wliiti-  male  in 
lialiitantsover 
21  years  of  apt 
not  exempt 
from  taxation 
for  1S58. 


Carried  forward.. 


69,004 
1,148 
1,228 
471 
1,095 
3,247 
634 
709 
f)18 
1,019 
3,683 
1,298 
1,372 
373 
1,097 
2,344 
3,183 
779 
572 
946 
692 
976 
1,314 
736 
1,042 
656 
928 
1,023 
679 
1,140 
898 
1,143 
2,588 
3,916 
1,635 
1,024 
2,678 
1,774 
1,554 
1,206 
1,293 
611 
703 
1,322 
2,101 
241 
1,131 
1,186 
858 
147 
2,531 


Number  of  white 
males  over  21 
years  of  ape 
returned  de- 
linquent f  o  r 
non  -  payment 
of  capitation 
tax  for  IS.'iS. 


65,338 


11,392 

192 

196 

43 

209 

1,322 

117 

83 

61 

89 

1,125 

190 

224 

118 

62 

243 

457 

46 

50 

112 

69 

36. 

238 

163 

129 

72 

80 

286 

152 

150 

131 

172 

645 

151 

305 

244 

430 

390 

469 

117 

830 

80 

62 

287 

481 

18 

94 

192 

189 

23 

504 


Amount  of  tax 
on  per  so  n  al 
property  re- 
turned delin- 
quent for  the 
non  -  payment 
thereof  for  the 
year  1 S5S. 


11,631 


!;2,706  86 
20  79 

14  93 

24  47 
335  76 

19  37 

15  00 

20  00 
13  93 

87  08 
44  12 
34  21 

25  67 

20  67 
64  34 
89  29 
10  32 
17  69 
48  94 

6  40 
24  29 
30  94 
33  13 
27  42 

21  36 

30  92 
37  48 

40  54 

41  54 
40  98 
43  01 

140  48 

88  42 
101  60 

40  18 
92  10 

79  53 
192  OS 

56  04 
17  08 

6  86 

92  64 

110  31 

3  50 
32  00 

31  67 
19  03 

80  32 


12,467  82 


[Doc.  No.  8.] 


NAME  OF  THE  COrNTY  AND  CORPORA- 
TION. 

Total  number  of 
white  male  in- 
habitants over 
21  years  of  ape 
not    e  X  e  in  \t  t 
from  taxation 
for  1S5S. 

Number  of  white 
male!)  over  21 
years   of    ape 
returned     de- 
lin(|uent    for 
non  -  payment 
of    cnjii'tation 
lax  for  1S58. 

Amount  of   lax 
on  personal 
properly    re- 
turned   delin- 
quent for  the 
non  -  payment 
thereof  for  the 
year  18:>S. 

Brought  forward 

65,338 
1,1  f.3 

713 
1,128 

630 

711 
2.153 

415 
2,000 

489 

230 
1,571 
1.832 
3,5'.»1 

137 

11,631 

117 

175 

141 

83 

43 

538 

69 

633 

86 

49 

545 

552 

1,770 

$2,467  82 
89  43 

Wavne 

Wostinorcland 

ft  22 

"Wotzel 

22  79 

^Virt 

17   12 

^ViM' 

31   47 

■\Vood 

119   19 

Wvoniinp 

18   10 

Wvthe 

85  59 

York 

15  81 

Danville 

Jf orfolk  Cii  V 

26  55 
12  66 

Peter.»biirp 

482  85 

RichiDOiid  Cilv 

957  24 

Williamsburg 

202.357 

87,280 

$9,208  62 

The  capitation  tax  on  the  37,230  persons  dehnquent  for  the 
year  1858,  amount  to  $;29, 784,  which,  toijcther  with  the  taxes 
on  personal  property^,  amount  to  ^38,992  52. 


[Doc.  No.  8 J 


TABLE 

Shov)i}ig  the  aggregate  nvmber  of  persons  over  tu'enty-07ie  years 
of  age,  who  were  assessed  rvith  a  capitation  tax  for  the  year 
1857,  and  the  number  returned,  delinquent  for  the  non-payment 
of  said  tax.  S/ioiting  also  the  rate,  per  cent,  of  delinrfuency 
in.  the  ichole  State,  and  of  each  grand  division  of  the  State: 

Whole  number  of  persons  over  twenty-one  years  of  age, 

assessed  with  a  capitation  tax  for  the  year  1857,  190,307 

Number  of  delinquents  for  that  year  being  18.59  per 

cent,  upon  the  whole  number  assessed,  37,059 

Number  who  pay  tax,  162,248 


BY  districts: 

Number  in  Tide- Water  district,  43,921 

Delinquent  23.79  per  cent.  10,451 


Number  who  pay  tax,  33,470 

Number  in  Piedmont  district,  46,519 

Delinquent  15.59  per  cent.  7,253 


Number  who  pay  tax,  39,366 


Number  in  Valley  district,  34,541 

Delinquent  15.80  per  cent.  5,459 


Number  who  pay  tax,  29,082 

Number  in  Trans- Alleghany  district,  74,326 

Delinquent  18.69  per  cent.  13,896 


Number  who  pay  tax,  60,430 


[DOC.  NO.  IX.] 


SCPPLEMENTARY  REPORT 


FROM    THE 


COMMITTEE  OF  ELECTIONS 


CONCERNING    THE   VOTE 


ON    THE 


QUESTION  OF  REFEREING  THE  ACTION  OF  THE  CONVENTION,  ETC. 


TO    THE    PEOPLE. 


[Doc.  No.  9.] 


REPORT. 


The  Committee  of  Elections  Anther  report  to  the  Convention, 
that  the  vote  in  the  various  counties,  cities  and  election  districts, 
from  which  official  returns  iiave  been  received,  either  hy  the 
President  of  (he  Convention  or  the  Governor  of  the  Coinmon- 
weakh,  for  refcning  to  the  jieopic  the  action  of  the  Convention, 
dissolving  our  connection  with  the  Federal  Union,  or  chang- 
ing the  organic  law  of  the  State,  and  '^ against  referring"  is  as 
follows: 


For 

Against 

Reference. 

Reference. 

845 

599 

802 

1,099 

1,221 

200 

462 

67 

139 

716 

115 

654 

33 

346 

3,394 

263 

1,291 

148 

437 

33 

964 

1,072 

1,633 

206 

379 

87 

866 

823 

517 

74 

785 

64 

263 

379 

336 

639 

313 

35 

1,418 

1,078 

214 

885 

328 

613 

133 

303 

113 

408 

504 

639 

389 

240 

197 

46 

632 

365 

356 

518 

183 

400 

1,504 

28 

Accoinac 

Alljeiiiarle k 

Alexandiiii 

Alleghany 

Amelia  and  Nottoway 

Amherst , 

Appomattox 

Augusta 

Barbour  

Bath 

Bedford 

Berkeley 

Boone 

Botetourt  and  Craig 

Braxton , 

Brooke  

Brunsu  iek 

Buchanan 

Buckingham 

Cabell 

Calhoun 

Campbill 

Caroline , 

Carroll 

Charles  City,  New  Kent  and  James  City, 

Charlotte  . 

Chesterfield 

Clarke 

Clay 

Craig,  (see  Botetourt) 

Culpeper , 

Cumlxrland  and  Powhatan 

Dinwiddio 

Doddridge  and  Tyler 


Carried  forward |      20,656 


13,017 


[Doc.  No.  9.] 


For 
Keferciice. 

Agnlnst 
Reference. 

Broiiplit  forward 

20,556 

2(12 

856 

954 

661 

700 

320 

1,517 

1,909 

440 

535 

40 

79 

1,322 

63 

722 

1,637 

657 

287 

972 

2,033 

1,135 

702 

677 

125 

1,180 

15 

1,420 

2,272 

835 

44 

18 

93 

714 

1,212 

2,180 

153 

24 

59 

2,049 

1,900 

1,054 

2 

151 

840 
19 
2,015 
903 
022 
612 
470 

13  017 

Elizabeth  Cit v 

Essex 

262 

Fairfax 

524 

Faiir|iiier 

921 

Favettc 

41 

riovil 

38 

Kluvaniiii  .... 

401 

Franklin 

280 

Frederick 

377 

(lik's 

221 

Gilmer 

17 

(iloucester 

397 

Cioocliland 

477 

(Jravsoii 

528 

(Jreenlirier 

127 

Greene 

(Jrecnesville 

166 

Ihilifax 

779 

•  255 
41 

llancoek  

Hanover 

702 

Ilardv 

67 

llarri.'^on 

183 

Ilonrico 

709 

Uenrv 

2 1 6 

lliLrlih.iKl 

60 

418 

Jackson,  and  part  of  Koane 

310 

James  Citv 

53. 

Ji'U'er*;(m 

391 

186 

Kinjr  Georfje  and  Staflord 

326 

Kin"  &  Queen 

449 

Kin^  William 

313 

204 

Lee 

312 

Lewis 

20 

Lofjan 

472 

707 

LuniMilinrg 

360 

695 

Marion 

110 

Marshall 

Jlason 

80 
49 

JIattliews 

224 

McDowell 

Mei'klenbui'g 

824 

Mei  cer 

189 

Middlesex 

213 

13 

Monroe 

142 

Montgomery 

181 

Morgan 

38 

!Kau8emoud 

254 

Carried  forward 

60,994 

28,417 

[Doc.  No.  9.] 


Brought  forward 

Nelson 

New  Kent  (see  Charles  City). 

Nicholas 

Norfolk  City 

Norfolk  County 

Northampton 

Northunil)orlaud 

Nottoway,  (see  Amelia) 

Ohio  .  .  ." 

Orange 

Page. 

Tatrick 

Pemlleton 

Petersburg 

Pittsylvania 

Plea.sants 

Pocahontas  

Powhatan,  (,«cc  Cumberland). 

Preston 

Princess  Anne 

Prince  Kilward 

Prince  George  and  Surry.  . . . 

Prince  William 

Pulaski 

Putnam ; 

Raleigh   

Randolph,  Tucker,  etc 

Rappahannock , 

Hiclimoiid  City , 

Richmond  County 

Ritchie 

Roane,  (sec  Jackson) 

Roanoke 

Rockbridge 

Rockingham 

Jtusseil 

Scott 

Shenandoah 

Smyth 

Soutliampton 

Spotsylvania    

Siadbrd,  (sec  King  George). 
Surry,  (see  Prince  George). . 

Sussex , 

Taylor 

Tazewell 

Tucker,  (see  Randolph) 

Tyler,  (see  Doddridge) 

Ipshur  

Warren 

Warwick 

Washington 

Wayne 

Webster  . .  .• 

Westmoreland 

Welzel 


Carried  forward. 


For 

Apainst 

Kifirence. 

Reference. 

00,094 

28,417 

079 

267 

544 

45 

8  7  5 

466 

1,0(19 

689 

4.-. 

296 

220 

329 

.•?,018 

62 

290 

471 

520 

430 

099 

101 

757 

72 

1,1  :J4 

317 

1,561 

1,023 

449 

18 

b-.io 

81 

1,92.'? 

11 

110 

424 

18:5 

472 

5;i5 

247 

270 

550 

200 

180 

679 

127 

420 

29 

8:32 

103 

(iOl 

180 

2,024 

1,679 

244 

258 

9U4 

102 

44] 

338 

1,901 

205 

2,4H9 

589 

910 

49 

1 ,2.^i0 

24 

797 

1,266 

l.rJ 

769 

469 

457 

G5.3 

6U5 

55 

341 

1,132 

107 

2.36 

915 

349 

299 

21 

70 

1,551 

476 

bi>3 

82 

106 

45 

264 

342 

937 

7 

98,043 


44,392 


[Doc.  No.  9.] 


For. 
Reference. 


Against 
Reference. 


Brought  forward. 

Williamsburg 

Wirt 

Wise 

Wood 

Wyoming 

Wythe 

York 


J      98,043 

.1  33 

457 

.;        1,309 

694 


Majority  for  referring. 


100,330 
45,101 


55,375 


44,392 
68 
22 

26 

653 


45,161 


From  which  it  appears  that  the  whole  number  of  votes  cast 
were  145,697,  of  which  100,536  were  cast  for  referring  to  the 
people;  and  45,161  votes  against  referring  to  the  people,  show- 
ing a  majority  of  55,375  votes  for  relerring  to  the  peo])le. 

From  tlie  following  named  counties,  no  otHcial  returns  have 
been  received,  viz:  Bnclianan,  Cabell,  Elizabeth  City,  Greene, 
Logan,  McDowell,  Upshur,  Wise,  Wyoming  and  York.  Should 
the  returns  from  the  delinquent  counties  be  received,  the  result 
of  the  vote  will  be  reported. 

The  Committee  are  of  opinion  that  tlie  returns  from  the  delin- 
quent counties  will  not  materially  change  the  above  stated  re- 
sult.    They  may  increase  the  majority  fur  referring. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 

A.  F.  RAYMOND, 

Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Elections^ 

March  6,  1861. 


[DOC.  NO.  X.l 


REPORT 


FROM  THE 


COMMITTEE  APPOIATED  TO  IIVQUIRE  WHETHER  ANY  MOVEMENT  OF  ARMS 
OR  MEN  HAS  BEEN  MADE, 


BY  THE 


GENERAL  GOYEEMENT, 


TO  ANY 


INDICATING  A  PURPOSE 


FOR 


ATTACK  OR  COERCION, 


AND 


ACCOMPANYING    DOCUMENT. 


[Doc.  No.  10.] 


REPORT. 


"The  committee  tn  whom  was  referred  a  resolution  with  in- 
structions "  to  in(]uire  and  report  as  speedily  as  practicable, 
whether  any  movement  of  arms  or  men,  has  been  made  by  tlie 
General  Guvernment  to  anyfort  or  arsenal  in  or  bordering  upon 
Virginia,  indi^atmg  a  preparation  fur  attack  or  coercion,"  beg 
leave  to  report: 

That,  from  information  derived  from  such  sources  as  were 
accessible  to  them,  they  are  of  opinion,  that  there  has  been  no 
movement  of  arms  or  men  by  the  General  Government,  with 
any  purpose  of  attack  or  coercion. 

In  regard  to  fortress  Monroe,  there  is  no  doubt  that  since  the 
first  of  January  last,  it  has  been  put  in  a  better  condition  for  de- 
fence, against  attack  from  all  quarters,  than  at  any  lime  before. 
Guns  have  been  mounted  upon  the  bind  side,  pointing  inland, 
a  portion  of  the  fort,  which  was  before  comparatively  unpro- 
tected, and  increased  vigilance  has  been  exercised  in  and  around 
the  fort.  It  was  in  evidence  before  your  committee,  that  the 
practicability  of  taking  this  flirt,  in  certain  contingencies,  had 
been  discussed,  in  the  neighborhood,  and  they  are  of  opinion, 
that  nothing  has  been  done  by  those  in  command  of  the  fort, 
which  nn'ght  not  be  regarded  by  them  as  projicr  measures  of 
protection  on  their  part. 

Your  committee  have  been  informed  by  the  war  department 
at  Wasliington,  that  within  the  period  supposed  to  be  alluded  to 
there  has  been  no  increase  of  the  public  arms,  in  the  arsenal  in 
Virginia,  nor  any  transfer  of  them  I'rom  one  point  to  another,  in 
the  Ntate,  except  one  hundred  muskets,  sent  from  Harper's 
Ferry  to  Fort  Monroe,  to  supply  a  deficiency,  and  some  weeks 
since,  a  company  of  troops  was  \viihdrawn  from  the  latter  place, 
with  a  view  of  reinforcing  a  Southern  fort. 

It  also  appears,  from  information  satisfactory  to  your  commit- 
tee, that  a  company  of  recruits,  consisting  of  fifty  men,  were 
removed  some  months  ago,  from  Carlisle  Barracks,  to  Harper's 
Ferry,  to  act  as  a  guard,  in  the  event  of  an  attack,  whirh  the 
superintendent  has  just  grounds  to  apprehend,  was  contemplated 


4  [Doc.  No.  10.] 

by  persons  nol  residing  in  Virginia,  or  sympathizing  with  the 
South. 

It  will  be  seen,  from  a  letter  herewith  filed,  and  addressed  by 
the  »Serretary  of  War  to  your  committee,  that  tio  other  move- 
ment of  troops  has  taken  place  in  Virginia  within  the  last  twelve 
months,  than  those  herein  specified. 

WILLIAM  M.  TREDWAY, 
Chairman  of  the  Cummittec. 


[Doc.  No.  10.] 


War  DepartjMent,  ") 
Feb.  27,  1S61.      f 

Sir, — In  reply  to  your  note  of  yesterday's  date,  communi- 
cating a  resolution  of  the  Convention  of  the  State  of  Virginia, 
directing  an  inquiry  whether  "any  movement  of  arms  or  men 
has  been  made  b}^  the  General  Government  to  any  fort  or  arsenal 
in  or  bordering  upon  Virginia,  indicating  a  preparation  for  attack 
or  coercion."  I  have  the  honor  to  state  that  no  such  movement 
has  taken  place,  nor  has  any  such  been  contemplated.  Within 
the  period  supposed  to  be  referred  to,  there  has  been  no  increase 
of  the  public  arms  in  the  arsenal  in  Virginia,  nor  any  transfer  of 
them  froiu  one  point  to  another,  in  the  State,  except  one  hun- 
dred muskets  sent  from  Harper's  Ferry  to  Fort  Monroe  to  supply 
a  deficiency.  Some  months  ago  a  company  of  recrnits  was 
ordered  from  Carlisle  Barracks  to  Harper's  Ferry,  for  the  protec- 
tion of  the  establishment  against  an  apprehended  attack  from 
disorderly  persons.  This  was  done  upon  the  request  of  Major 
Barbour,  the  superintendent.  Some  weeks  since,  a  company  of 
troops  was  withdrawn  from  Fortress  Monroe,  v\nth  a  view  of  re- 
inforcing a  Southern  Fort,  but  not  for  any  purpose  of  attack  or 
coercion. 

These  are  the  only  movements  of  troops  which  have  taken 
place  in  Virginia  within  the  last  twelve  months. 

Very  respectfully. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

J.  HOLT,  Secretary  of  War. 


[DOC.  NO.  XL] 


COMMUNICATION 


FROM    THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  C031M0NWEALTH, 


TRANSMITTING 


A  REPORT  FROM  THE  COMMISSIONERS 


APPOINTED  TO 


EEPRESEXT  THIS  COMMONWEALTH.  L\"  THE  COXFERE.VCE  WHICH  CONVENED 
I.\  WASHINGTON  CITY.  ON  THE   1TH  I)\Y  OF  FEERrARY.  1961, 


[Doc.  No.  n.] 


Executive  Department,  March  6th,  1861. 
Gejitlemen  of  the  Convciitmi  : 

In  obedience  to  tlie  requirements  of  the  fourth  resohition  of 
the  series,  adopted  by  the  General  Assembly  on  the  19th  day  of 
January  last,  I  communicate  herewith  a  report  from  the  com- 
missioners appointed  to  represent  this  Commonwealth  in  the 
Conference  which  convened  in  Washington  City  on  the  4th  day 
of  February  last.     The  report  was  delivered  to  me  last  evening. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


[Doc.  No.  11.] 


COMMISSIONERS'  REPORT. 


^0  his  Excellency  John  LetcheR) 

Governor  of   Virginia  : 

The  undersigned  Commissioners,  in  pursuance  of  the  wishes 
of  the  General  Assemhly,  expressed  in  their  resohitions  of  the 
19th  day  of  January  last,  repaired  in  due  season  to  the  City  of 
Wasliiiigton.  They  there  found,  on  the  4th  day  of  February, 
the  day  suggested  in  the  overture  of  Virginia  for  a  Conference 
with  the  other  States.  Conunissioners  to  meet  them  from  tlie  fol- 
lowing States,  viz:  Rliode  Island,  New  Jersey,  Delaware,  Mary- 
land, New  Hampshire,  Vermont,  (yonneclieut,  I^ennsylvaiiia, 
North  Carolina,  Ohio,  Indiana,  Illinois  and  Kentucky.  Subse- 
quently, during  the  continuance  of  the  Conference,  at  different 
periods,  appeared  likewise  Commissioners  from  Tennessee, 
Massachusetts,  Missouri,  New  York,  Maine,  Iowa,  and  Kansas; 
so  that,  before  the  close,  twenty-one  States  were  represented  by 
Commissioners,  appointed  either  by  the  Legislatures  or  Gover- 
nors of  the  respective  States. 

The  undersigned  communicated  the  resolutions  of  the  General 
Assembly  to  the  Conference,  and  both  before  the  committee,  ap- 
pointed to  recommend  a  plan  of  adjustment,  and  the  Conference 
itself,  urged  the  propositions  known  as  the  Crittenden  resolu- 
tions, with  the  modifications  suggested  by  the  General  Assend)Iy 
of  Virginia,  as  the  basis  of  an  acceptable  adjustment. 

They  were  not  adopted  by  the  Conference,  but  in  lieu 
thereof,  after  much  discussion  and  the  consideration  of  many 
proposed  amendments,  an  Article  with  seven  sections,  intended 
as  an  amendment  to  the  Constitution,  (a  copy  of  which  Article 
is  hereto  adjoined,)  was  adopted  by  sections,  (not,  under  the 
rules,  being  voted  on  as  a  whole,)  and  by  a  vote  of  the  Confer- 
ence, (not  taken  by  States)  was  directed  to  be  submitted  to 
Congress,  with  the  rc(]uest  that  it  should  be  recommended  to 
the  States  for  ratification,  which  was  accordingly  done  by  the 
President  of  the  Conference. 

The  undersigned  regret  that  the  Journal,  showing  ihc  pro- 
ceedings and  votes  in  the  Conference,  has  not  yet  been  jinb- 
lished  or  furnished  them,  and  that  consequently  they  arc  not 


6  [Doc.  No.   11.] 

able  to  present  it  M'ith  this  report.  As  soon  as  received,  it  will 
be  comnnniicatrd  to  your  Excellency.  In  the  absence  of  that 
record,  it  is  deemed  appropriate  to  state  that  on  the  final  adop- 
tion of  the  first  section,  two  of  the  States,  Indiana  and  Alissoiiri, 
did  not  vote,  and  New  York  was  divided,  and  that  the  vote  by 
States  was — Ayes  9,  Noes  8 — Virginia,  by  a  majority  of  her 
Commissioners,  voting  in  tlie  negative.  The  other  sections 
were  adopted  by  varying  majorities,  (not  precis(>ly  recollected,) 
and  on  the  5th  and  7th  sections,  the  vote  of  Virginia  was  in  the 
negative. 

The  plan,  when  submitted  to  Congress,  failed  to  receive  its 
recommendation;  and  as  that  body,  bavin?  adjourned ,  can  take 
no  further  cognizance  of  it,  the  undersigned  feel  the  contingency 
has  arrived  on  which  they  are  required  to  report,  as  they  herein 
do,  the  result  of  their  action. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  TYLER, 
G.  VV.  SUMMERS, 
W.  C.  RIVES, 
JAMES  A.  SEDUON. 


[Doc.  No.  11.] 


ARTICLE  XIII. 

Section  1.  In  all  the  present  territory  of  the  United  States, 
north  of  the  parallel  of  thirty-six  degrees  and  thirty  mijintes  of 
north  latitude,  involuntary  servitude,  except  in  punishment  of 
crime,  is  prohibited.  In  all  the  present  territory  south  of  that 
line,  the  status  of  persons  held  to  service  of  labor,  as  it  now  ex- 
ists, shall  not  be  changed;  nor  shall  any  law  be  passed  by  Con- 
gress or  the  Territorial  Legislature  to  hinder  or  prevent  the 
taking  of  such  persons  from  any  of  the  States  of  this  Union  to 
said  territory,  nor  to  impair  the  riglits  arising  from  said  relation; 
but  the  same  shall  be  subject  to  judicial  cognizance  in  the  fede- 
ral courts,  according  to  the  course  of  the  common  law.  When 
any  territory  north  or  south  of  said  line,  within  such  boundary 
as  Congress  may  prescribe,  shall  contain  a  population  equal  to 
that  required  for  a  member  of  Congress,  it  shall,  if  its  form  of 
goverimient  be  republican,  be  admitted  into  the  Union  on  an 
equal  footing  with  the  original  States,  with  or  without  involun- 
tary servitude,  as  such  constitution  of  the  State  may  provide. 

S'ectiox  2.  No  territory  shall  be  acquired  by  the  United 
States,  except  by  discovery  and  for  naval  and  commercial  sta- 
tions, depots,  and  transit  routes,  without  the  concurrence  of  a 
majority  of  all  the  Senators  from  States  which  allow  involuntary 
serviiude,  and  a  majority  of  all  the  Senators  from  States  which 
prohibit  that  relation;  nor  shall  territory  be  acquired  by  treaty, 
unless  the  votes  of  a  majority  of  the  Senators  from  each  class  of 
States  herein  before  mentioned  be  cast  as  a  part  of  the  two-third 
majority  necessary  to  the  ratificatton  of  such  trcat3^ 

Section  3.  Neither  the  Constitution,  nor  any  amendment 
thereof,  shall  be  construed  to  give  Congress  power  to  regulate, 
abolish,  or  control,  within  any  State  of  the  United  States,  the  re- 
lation established  or  recognized  by  the  laws  thereof  touching 
persons  held  to  labor  or  involuntary  service  therein,  nor  to  in- 
terfere with  or  abolish  involuntary  ser"ice  in  the  District  of  Co- 
lumbia without  the  consent  of  MarylamJ  and  without  the  con- 
sent of  the  owners,  or  making  the  owners  who  do  not  con- 
sent just  compensation;  nor  the  power  to  interfere  with  or  pro- 
hibit representatives  and  others  from  bringing  with  them  to  the 
Districtof  Columbia,  retaining  and  taking  away,  persons  so  held 
to  labor  or  service,  nor  the  power  to  interfere  witli  or  abolish  in- 
voluntary service  in  places  under  the  exclusive  jurisdiction  of  the 
United  States  williin  those  States  and  Territories  where  the  same 
9 


8  [Doc.  No.  11.] 

is  established  or  recognized;  nor  the  power  to  prohibit  tlie  remo- 
val or  transportation  of  persons  held  to  labor,  or  involnntary'  ser- 
vice in  any  State  or  Territory  of  the  United  States  to  any  other 
State  or  Territoiy  thereof  Avhere  it  is  established  or  recognized 
by  law  or  usnge;  and  the  right  during  transportation,  by  sea  or 
river,  of  touching  at  ports,  shores  and  landings,  and  of  landing 
in  case'of  distress,  shall  exist,  but  not  the  right  of  transit  in  or 
through  any  State  or  Territory,  or  of  sale  or  traffic  against  the 
laAvs  thereof.  Nor  shall  Congress  have  power  to  authorize  any 
higher  rate  of  taxation  on  persons  held  to  labor  or  service  than 
on  land. 

The  bringing  into  the  District  of  Columbia  persons  held  to  la- 
bor or  service  for  sale,  or  placing  them  in  depots  to  he  afterwards 
transferred  to  other  jilaces  for  sale  as  merchandise,  is  prohibited. 

Skction  4.  Tlie  third  paragraph  of  the  second  section  of  the 
fourth  article  of  the  Constitution  shall  not  be  construed  to  pre- 
vent any  of  the  States,  by  appropriate  legislation,  and  through 
the  action  of  their  judicial  and  ministerial  ofhcers,  from  enf(M'cing 
the  deliver}^  of  fugitives  from  labor  to  the  person  to  whom  such 
service  or  labor  is  due. 

Section  5.  The  foreign  slave  trade  is  hereby  forever  prohi- 
bited; and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  Congress  to  pass  laws  to  pre- 
vent the  importation  of  slaves,  coolies,  or  persons  held  to  service 
or  labor,  into  the  United  States  and  the  Territories  from  places 
beyond  the  limits  thereof. 

Section  C  The  first,  third  and  fifth  sections,  together  with 
this  section  of  these  amendments,  and  third  paragraph  of  the 
second  section  of  the  first  article  of  the  Constitution,  and  the 
tliird  pariigraph  of  the  second  section  of  the  fourth  article  there- 
of, shall  not  be  amended  or  abolished  without  the  consent  of  all 
the  States. 

Section  7.  Congress  shall  provide  by  law  that  the  United 
States  shall  pay  to  the  owner  the  full  value  of  his  fugitive  from 
labor,  in  all  cases  where  the  marshal,  or  other  officer,  whose 
duty  it  was  to  arrest  such  fugitiv^e,  was  prevented  from  so  doing 
by  violence  or  intimidation  from  mobs  or  riotous  assemblages,  or 
when,  nCw.r  arrest,  such  fiigitive  was  rescued  by  like  violence  or 
intimidation,  and  the  owner  thereby  deprived  o[  the  same;  and 
Congress  shall  provide  by  law  for  securing  to  the  citizens  of  each 
•State  the  privileges  and  immunities  of  the  several  States. 


( 


[DOC.  NO.  XII.] 


COMMXJNIC^TIOlSr 


FROM 


HON.   JOHN   W.   BROCKENBROUGH, 


ADDRESSED    TO 


HON.   JOHN    TYLER, 

/ 

EX-PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES, 

AND 

HOlf.   GEORGE    W.  SUMMERS. 


[Doc.  No.  12.] 


JUDGE  BROCKENBROUGll'S  LETTER. 


Washington,  March  2,  1861. 

The  Hon.  .Tohn  Tyler,  ex-President  of  the  United  States,  and 
Hon.  George  W.  Summers: 

Gentlemen, — I  beg  leave  to  address  you,  as  two  of  the  Com- 
missioners representing  the  State  of  Virginia  in  the  late  Peace 
Conference  at  Washington,  and  also  as  members  of  the  State 
Convention,  now  sitting  at  Richmond,  and  to  state,  as  briefly  as 
I  can,  my  views  in  reference  to  tlie  results  of  that  Conference. 

The  act  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Virginia  which  originated 
the  Cojiference,  declares  the  patriotic  purposes  which  impelled 
the  Legislature  in  resorting  to  this  extraordinary  mode  of  adjust- 
ing the  unhappy  controversy  which  now  divides  the  States  of  this 
Confederacy,  and  declares  that  unless  it  be  satisfactorily  adjusted, 
*'a  jicrmancnt  dissolution  of  the  Union  is  inevitable;  and  the 
General  Assembly,  representing  the  wishes  of  the  people  of  this 
Commonwealth,  is  desirous  of  employing  every  reasonable 
means  to  avert  so  dire  a  calamity,  and  determined  to  make  a 
final  effort  to  restore  the  ITnioii  and  the  Constitution  in  the  spirit 
in  whicli  they  were  established  by  the  fathers  of  the  Republic. " 
The  act  further  declared  the  opinion  of  the  (jleneral  Asseiubly  to 
be,  that  the  resolutions  submitted  to  the  Senate  of  the  United 
States  by  Mr.  Crittenden,  with  several  specified  modifications, 
constitute  the  basis  of  such  an  adjustmetit  of  the  controversy  as 
would  be  accepted  by  the  people  of  Virginia. 

The  plan  of  adjustment  agreed  upon  by  a  majority  of  the  Con- 
ference differs  in  many  important  particulars  from  the  scheme  of 
Mr.  Crittenden.  The  main  difficulty  we  had  to  contend  Avith  in 
the  Conference,  was  in  a  satisfactory  adjustment  of  the  Territo- 
rial question.  The  Crittenden  plan  distinctly  recognizes  slavery 
of  the  African  race  south  of  latitude  36^  30'  as  existing,  and  pre- 
cludes (Jongress  from  interfering  therewith:  and  declares  that  it 
shall  \)^  protected  as  property  by  all  the  departments  of  the  terri- 
torial government  during  its  continuance.  The  Conference  plan 
contains  no  such  recognition,  co  nomine,  but  declares  that  "the 
.status  of  persons  held  to  involuntary  service  or  labor,  as  it  now 
exists,  shall  not  be  changed:  nor  shall  any  law  be  passed  by 


4  [Doc.  No.  12.] 

Congress  or  the  Territorial  legislalure  to  hinder  or  prevent  the 
taking  of  such  persons  from  any  of  the  JStates  to  said  territories, 
nor  to  impair  the  rights  arising  from  said  relation;  but  the  same 
shall  be  subject  to  judicial  cognizance  in  the  federal  courts,  ac- 
cording to  the  course  of  the  common  law." 

Whetber  this  provision  is  substantially  e(|uivalent  to  the  cor- 
responding clause  of  the  Crittenden  plan  is  a  cpicstion  of  inter- 
pretatifUi.  Tlie  language  of  the  latter  is  clear  and  perspicuous; 
of  the  former,  vague  and  ambiguous.  Wbatever  tlie  true  con- 
struction of  it  be,  it  is  a  most  weigbty  objection  to  it,  that  it 
admits  of  various  interpretations.  The  rights  arising  from  the 
relation  of  master  and  slave  are  expressly  recognized,  and  the 
Federal  Courts  are  required  to  take  cognizance  of  them;  but 
neither  the  Executive  nor  Legislative  de))artment  is,  in  terms, 
required  to  protect  them.  Its  advocates  in  the  Conference  in- 
sisted that  wbile  the  rights  arising  from  the  relation  are  referred 
to  tlie  judicial  determination  of  the  courts,  the  recognition  of 
them  in  the  article,  by  a  just  implication,  imports  that  it  is  the 
duty  of  the  Legislature  to  afford  them  ample  protection  by  posi- 
tive enactment  of  laws  necessary  to  accomplish  the  end.  If 
this  be  the  proper  construction  of  the  clauses,  and  in  my  opinion 
it  is — the  guarantee  of  protection  of  tbe  rights  of  property  in 
slaves  in  the  territories  is  equiv^alent  to  that  contained  in  the 
Crittenden  scheme.  But  we  have  to  resort  to  implication  to 
deduce  it.  The  terms  employed,  the  secure  protection  of  the 
rights  growing  out  of  the  relation  of  master  and  slave  are  nega- 
tive only;  they  shall  not  be  changed,  or  the  introduction  of 
slaves  hindered,  or  the  rights  of  the  master  impaired  by  legisla- 
tion. No  duty  is  prescribed  to  hedge  them  around  with  proper 
enactments.  It  is  for  this  reason  that  1  made  a  most  strenuous 
effoit  to  amend  the  section  by  interpolating  the  words — ''and  it 
shall  be  the  duly  of  the  t(!rritorial  Covernment,  in  all  its  dejiart- 
ments,  to  protect  the  rights  arising  from  said  relation."  The 
effort  was  repeatedly  and  most  earnestly  made.  It  was  ineffec- 
tual, but  it  is  fair  to  say  that  the  sense  of  the  Conference  was 
not  tested  on  this  particular  question — the  consideration  of  the 
amendment  being  precluded  by  the  ruling  of  the  chair,  that  the 
section  was  not  then  amendable. 

The  rigbts  of  tbe  master  are  made  subject  to  judicial  cogni- 
zance accoi'di/iff  to  tJie  course  of  the  common  Utw]  How  far  can 
the  courts  afford  protection  to  tbe  rights  of  the  master  to  his 
slave,  according  to  the  course  of  the  common  law?  Wbere  legal 
rights  exist,  that  most  wise  and  flexible  system  of  law  known  as 
the  common  law  always  supplies  the  apjiropriate  remedies  for 
their  enf  ircement.  The  invasion  of  a  riglit  is  an  injury,  fir  tbe 
redress  of  which  a  suitable  remedy  was  always  afforded;  for  tlie 
common  law  knows  no  such  anomaly  as  a  wrong  without  a 


[Doc.  No.  12.]  5 

remedy.  Any  civil  injury,  therefore,  to  the  rights  growing  out 
of  the  relation  of  master  and  slave  would  be  redressed,  accord- 
ing to  the  course  of  the  common  law,  by  supplying  the  appro- 
priate remedy  of  detinue,  trover,  case,  vfcc.  It  is  said  that  at 
common  law,  slavery  was  not  recognized — that  at  common  law, 
man  could  not  have  properly  in  man;  and  the  celebrated  Som- 
erset case,  and  the  late  Anderson  case  are  cited,  in  support  of 
the  proposition;  to  whirh  mav  be  added  the  imposing  antlioriiy 
of  W.  H.  Seward  himself  2'Seward's  Works,  vol.  II,  p.  453-4. 
But  the  common  law  is  not  relerred  to  here  to  determine  ri^lits^ 
but  simply  to  furnish  remedies  for  injuries  to  rights  recognized 
by  the  section  in  explicit  terms.  The  principle  that  riglits 
always  draw  after  them  at  conuiion  law  the  remedy  for  injuries 
to  those  rights,  does  not  apply  to  public  v/rongs  or  crimes. 
These  are  not  punishable  until  deemed  and  appropriate  penalties 
denounced  either  by  the  common  law  or  by  statute.  But  we 
cannot  look  to  the  common  law  as  a  source  of  criminal  jurisdic- 
tion in  the  Federal  Courts  where  those  rights  are  made  cogniza- 
ble, for  those  tribunals  have  no  such  jurisdiction,  and  can  only 
take  cognizance  of  crimes  specially  created  or  defined  by  sta- 
tute. Statutes  prescribing  police  regulations  are  indispensable 
in  a  slaveholdiug  country;  but  the  duty  of  enacting  them  is  not 
enjoined  by  this  section,  unless  it  be  implied  from  the  recogni- 
tion of  the  rights  arising  from  the  relation  of  master  and  slave. 
Is  it  a  fair  implication  from  the  language  of  this  section,  that  it 
is  the  duty  of  the  territorial  Legislature  of  New  Mexico  to  pro- 
tect the  riglits  of  slave  owners  by  all  proper  enactments?  In  my 
judgment,  it  admits  of  no  other  fair  or  reasonable  construction. 
There  is  much  ciicumlncution  to  avoid  the  use  of  the  terms 
"slaves"  and  "slavery";  but  the  5^o^w5  of  persons  held  to  in- 
voliuitary  service  or  labor  there,  is  that  of  slavery,  and  the  per- 
sons so  held  are  slaves:  that  status — that  is,  the  state  or  condi- 
tion of  slavery  shall  not  be  changed,  nor  the  importation  or 
introduction  of  such  persons  from  any  of  the  States  prevented, 
iu)r  the  rights  arisini;  from  such  relation  impaired.  They  would 
be  impaired  williout  proper  legislation  f)r  their  protection,  and 
the  duty  of  such  protection  may  therefore  be  inferred,  since  the 
failure  to  legi^late  may  as  efTectually  impair  the  rights  recog- 
nized, as  positive  hostile  legislation.  But,  in  point  of  fact,  there 
is  no  necessity  f»r  such  legislation  in  New  Mexico,  It  exists 
already  in  very  ample  measure,  as  I  learn  from  undoubted  au- 
thority. Tlie  status  of  such  persons,  as  it  now  exists,  is  recog- 
nized as  a  status  of  slavery,  and  of  slavery  only;  the  rights  of 
the  master  are  already  fully  protected  by  law,  and  to  repeal 
thi^se  laws  would  be  a  clear  violation  of  the  spirit  and  very 
words  of  this  section,  as  it  would  certainly  impair,  most  proba- 
bly destroy,  those  rights.     Upon  every  sound  principle  of  inter- 


6  [Doc.  No.  12.] 

pretation,  I  think  that  the  rights  of  the  master  to  his  slaves,  as 
property,  are  protected  by  this  section. 

The  second  section  introduces  a  new,  and  as  I  tliink,  valua- 
ble principle.  >So  far  as  the  actpiisition  of  fulnre  territory  is 
concerned,  it  creates  a  dual  Senate,  by  an  equal  partition  of 
power  between  the  two  sections  of  the  Senate.  This  is  a  prac- 
tical guarantee  of  equal  power  to  tlie  weaker  section,  by  which 
the  South  can  exclude  any  future  territory,  if  the  conditions  of 
its  admission  are  disadvantageous  to  her.  But  the  Northern 
section  may  equally  check-mate  her,  in  her  attempts  to  acquire 
future  territory.  True,  but  the  only  territory  south  of  36°  3(T 
which  can  be  hereafter  acquired,  is  Cuba  and  the  Northern  part 
of  Mexico.  Cuba  is  a  slaveholdmg  island  already,  and  its  great 
resources  can  only  be  developed  by  slave  labor.  The  North  is 
more  eager  to  possess  it  than  the  South.  If  any  portion  of  Mex- 
ico is  hereafter  acquired,  it  will  be  on  the  principle  of  a  fair  and 
equitable  partition  of  the  territory  between  the  sections.  T'his 
section  was  approved  by  four  of  the  Commissioners  from 
A'irsinia. 

The  third  section  embodies,  substantially,  I  thinlc,  the  provi- 
sions of  the  second,  third  and  fourth  sections  of  the  (yritenden 
plan.  It  prohibits  Congress  from  interfering  with  slavery  within 
any  Statj  ox  T'erritory;  or  iti  the  District  of  Columbia,  without 
the  consent  of  Maryland  and  of  the  OAvners,  or  making  the 
owners  just  compensation;  or  with  representatives  or  others 
bringing  slaves  for  personal  service  with  them  and  taking  them 
away;  or  in  places  within  the  exclusive  jurisdiction  of  the  United 
States  within  those  States  and  Territories  wh^re  slavery  exists; 
or  the  removal  or  transportation  of  slaves  from  one  State  or  Ter- 
ritory to  any  other  where  slavery  exists;  or  the  right  during 
transportation,  by  sea  or  river,  of  toucldng  at  ports,  shores  and 
landings,  and  of  landing  in  case  of  distress.  The  x\^^\\i  oi ti'ansit 
through  States  where  slavery  does  not  exist,  is  not  conferred. 
The  provision  that  no  higher  rate  of  taxation  shall  be  imposed 
on  slaves  than  on  land  is  of  some  value  to  the  South. 

The  section  prohibiting  the  foreign  slave  trade  by  constitu- 
tional amendment  is  objectionable,  simply  because  it  was  wholly 
unnecessary.  Even  the  confederated  States  of  the  South  now 
constituting  an  independent  government  of  slave  States,  de 
facto,  ii' not  dc  jure,  have  prohibited  this  traliic.  The  advo- 
cates for  re-opening  it  in  any  one  of  the  border  slave  States  are 
very  few,  and  there  was  no  sort  of  necessity  for  interpolating 
this  provision,  which  had  no  connection  \\'\i\\  the  pending  con- 
troversy, into  this  scheme  of  adjustment. 

The  seventh  and  last  section  of  the  Conference  scheme  is 
very  much  less  satisfactory  than  the  corresponding  one  in  Mr. 
Crittenden's  plan.     Each  provides  for  the  payment  of  the  full 


[Doc.  No.  12.]  1 

value  of  fugitive  slaves  by  the  United  States  in  all  cases  where 
the  officer  charged  with  the  duty  of  making  the  arrest  is  pre- 
vented from  so  doing  by  violence  or  intimidation,  or  when 
after  arrest,  the  slaves  are  rescued.  But  the  former  is  defective 
in  not  ]irovitling  for  reimbursement  to  the  United  States  by  cloth- 
ing it  with  power  to  impose  and  collect  a  tax  on  the  county  or 
city  where  the  outrage  was  conmiitted  equal  to  the  principal,  in- 
terest and  costs,  as  is  provided  in  the  Crittenden  resolutions. 
There  is  a  double  advantage  in  this  feature.  In  the  first  place 
it  is  more  just  and  equitable  to  cast  the  burthen  on  those  who 
committed  the  wrong  than  upon  the  public  treasury.  The 
South  is  thus  made,  by  its  omission  in  the  Conference  scheme, 
to  pay  its  full  proportion  of  a  charge  resulting  from  a  wrong 
conmiitted  against  herself.  But  by  far  the  most  important  con- 
sideration is,  that  such  a  requirement  would  tend  powerfully  to 
restrain  such  wicked  outrages  by  making  it  the  interest  of  the 
offending  locality  to  suppress  all  mobs  and  riotous  assemblages, 
to  rob  and  plunder  the  citizens  of  the  South  for  no  other  cause 
than  asserting  an  undoubted  constitutional  right. 

I  have  thus  endeavored  to  run  a  parallel  between  the  two 
plans  of  adjustment.  On  the  whole,  it  is  clear  that  the  Critten- 
den plan  is  far  preferable  to  that  of  the  late  l*eace  Conference. 
It  is  unnecessary  to  say  how  earnestly,  yet  inelfectually,  we  strug- 
gled to  come  up  to  the  very  letter  of  our  commission  by  obtain- 
ing an  adjustment  on  the  basis  of  the  former  plan,  and  in  every 
variety  of  form.  We  were  uniformly  voted  down  by  that  inex- 
orable mnjority!  At  length,  all  rival  schemes  being  rejected, 
the  naked  question  came  up  of  the  adoption  or  rejection  of  the 
present  Conference  scheme.  The  vote  was  by  sections,  and 
A'irginia  voted  against  the  most  important  sections,  particularly 
the  first  and  seventh  of  the  series;  and  they  were  all  adopted 
seriatim.  It  was  supposed  that,  as  a  matter  of  course,  the  vote 
would  be  taken  upon  the  scheme  as  an  entirety,  and  I  then  an- 
nounced to  one  of  you  that  after  the  most  anxious  deliberation 
I  had  come  to  the  conclusion  that,  distasteful  as  the  scheme  was 
to  me,  I  felt  it  to  be  my  duty  to  cast  a  representative  vote  and 
sustnin  the  measure  as  a  whole.  1  was  convinced  tlial  Western 
Virginia,  which  I  in  part  represented,  would  so  have  voted  by 
an  immense  majority,  if  her  voice  could  be  heard  within  that 
hall,  and,  acting  under  that  strong  conviction,  I  would  have 
done  homage  to  that  great  principle  of  representative  govern- 
ment whicli  demands  that  the  representative  yield  his  individual 
sentiments  and  give  utterance  to  those  of  his  constituents.  But 
no  vote  was  taken  on  the  plan,  as  a  whole,  the  Chair  having 
ruled  that  each  section  being  successively  adopted,  the  entire  plan 
was  adopted,  and  no  further  vote  was  necessary  or  admissible 
under  the  parliamentary  rule. 
10 


8  [Doc.  No.  12.] 

The  most  solemnly  momentous  issue  that  ever  agitated  the 
councils  of  our  dear  old  Coinuionwealth  is  now  fairly  made  up 
and  iiuist  soon  find  its  solution  in  the  dciibcM-ations  of  the  Con- 
vention now  assembled  to  give  expression  to  her  sovereign  will. 
My  earnest  prayer  is  that  true  wisdom  may  conduct  her  safely 
and  honorably  out  of  this  great  crisis.  Every  loyal  son  of  hers 
awaits  the  issue  with  intense  solicitude,  and  for  myself  I  will 
say  that  my  destiny  is  bound  up  indissolubly  with  hers ! 

I  am,  gentlemen,  most  cordiallyj 

Your  friend; 

JOHN  W.  BROCKENBROUGH. 


[DOC.  m.  xm.] 


REPORT 


OF  THE 


COMMITTEE 

TO  CONFER  WITH  TflE  EDITORS  OF  TUE  RICHMOND  E\(iUlRER  TO  ASCERTAIN 


WHETHER 


THE  PROCEEDKGS  OF  THE  COxWENTION 


COULD  BE 


PUBLISHED  UPON  A  SEPARATE  SHEET 


WITHOUT  ANY  OTIIEPw  MATTER. 


[Doc.  No.  13.] 


REPORT. 


The  undersigned,  committee  appointed  to  ascertain  whether 
the  Debates  of  the  Convention  could  be  published  on  sheets 
containing  no  other  matter,  report:  that  in  discharge  of  their 
duty  they  handed  to  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  HJm/uirer  the 
following  conniuinication: 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  three  be  appointed  to  confer 
with  the  editors  of  the  Richmond  Enquirer,  to  ascertain  whether 
the  proceedings  of  this  Convention  could  be  published  upon  a 
separate  sheet,  without  any  other  matter. 

The  Committee  appointed  under  the  foregoing  resolution  deem 
it  desirable  that  the  Debates  of  the  Convention  sliould  be  printed 
in  a  more  convenient  form  for  binding  and  reference  than  now. 
They,  therefore,  in  furtherance  of  the  dwiy  assiumed  them  bv 
the  resolution  aforesaid,  submit  the  follcnving  inquiries  to  the 
proprietors  of  the  E/if/uircr: 

1.  On  what  terms  would  the  proprietors  of  the  JEm/uirer  sub- 
stitute for  tlieir  present  contract  for  printing  of  the  debates  an 
agreement  to  print  them  on  sheets  without  any  other  matter,  in 
a  form  more  convenient  for  binding  and  reference? 

2.  On  what  terms  would  they  substitute  for  the  twenty  copies 
of  the  Semi-Weekly  Etu/uirer,  now  furnished  members  of  the 
Convention,  the  same  number  of  copies  of  the  Debates  of  the 
Convention  made  up  from  the  columns  of  the  Emjiiirer,  and 
printed  upon  the  same  paper,  folded  into  octavo  form,  with  three 
columns  on  each  pnge,  each  copy  to  be  stitched,  and  to  contain 
no  other  matter  but  the  said  Debates? 

What  would  be  the  cost  of  copies  above  the  number  of  twenty 
to  each  member? 

3.  On  what  terms  would  they  substitute  for  the  twenty  copies 
of  the  -£77/r/?/irer  now  furnished  each  mon)berof  the  Convention, 
twenty  copies  of  an  extra  sheet  of  the  Euquircr  containing  no 
other  matter  than  the  Debates  of  the  Convention,  the  said  extra 


4  [Doc.  No.  13.] 

to  bo  printed  wlienever  there  is  matter  enough  to  fill  a  sheet  of 
the  Enquirer  paper? 

What  would  be  the  cost  per  copy  of  a  greater  number  than 
twenty  to  eacji  member? 

Signed,  JOHN  N.  HUGHES, 

W.  C.  WICKHAM, 
G.  W.  RICHARDSON, 
Co?nmittee. 

That  in  response  thereto  they  received  a  commnnication  from 
the  proprietors  of  the  £'w/2/?;rr,  declining  to  make  any  alteration 
whatever  in  their  present  contract,  but  proposing  to  "furnish  in 
addition  to  the  twenty  Semi- Weeklies,  which  the  contract  calls 
for,  upon  the  terms  of  the  present  contract,  iriihmit  (K/ditional 
charge  for  composition,  and  reporting  any  number  of  copies  of  a 
separate  sheet,  without  any  other  matter,  \vliich  the  Convention 
may  order." 

Your  committee  compute  the  cost  of  twenty  copies  to  each 
member,  if  the  publication  is  deferred  until  material  enough  is 
furnished  to  fill  a  sheet  of  the  Enquirer  paper,  at  about  one 
hundred  dollars  per  week,  allowing  sixty-four  columns  per  week, 
as  the  average  amount  of  matter,  and  excluding  from  ciilcnlation 
any  allowance  for  foKling  and  wrajiping,  which  would  increase 
the  cost  by  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-one  dollars  and 
sixty  cents  per  week. 

Inasmuch  as  many  members  of  the  Convention  disapprove  of 
the  character  of  some  of  the  "other  matter"  that  under  the  ex- 
isting arrangement  accompanies  the  Debates,  the  committee  re- 
commend the  adoption  of  the  following  resolution: 

Resolved,  Tliat  the  committee  appointed  on  printing  the  De- 
bates on  separate  sheets  be  directed  to  endeavor  to  contract  with 
the  proprietors  of  the  Enquirer  to  furnish  each  men) Ivor  of  the 
Convention  with  twenty  copies  ot"  the  debates  from  their  com- 
mencenient,  to  he  printed  in  accordance  with  and  on  tiio  terms 
indiciited  in  their  report,  provided  that  no  contract  shall  be  made 
for  folding  and  wrapping  the  same;  and  if  they  can  obtain  such 
contract,  it  shall  be  submitted  to  the  Convention  for  its  action. 

JOHN  N.  HUGHES,  Chairman. 


[DOC.  NO.  xrv.] 


POPULATION 


STATE    OF   VIRGINIA, 


ACCORDING   TO   THE 


EIGHTH  CENSUS, 


TAKEN 


JUNE   1,   1860. 


[Doc.  No.  14.] 


Census  Office,  Department  of  the  Interior,  "> 
Washington,  March  9,  1861.      5 

Hon.  Sherrard  Clemens,  Richmond,  Va. 

Dear  Sir, — I  have  the  honor  to  mention  that  since  the  trans- 
mission of  the  table,  giving  the  population  of  the  State  of  Vir- 
ginia liy  counties,  a  more  complete  return  has  been  receiv^ed  from 
Amherst  county,  reducing  somewhat  its  population.  The  cor- 
rect population  of  that  county  is: 

Whites 7,170 

Free  black , 295 

Slaves 6,278 


be 


Total 13,743 

The  population  of  the  whole  State,  with  this  correction,  will 

Whites 1,047,613 

Free  black 57,579 

Slaves 490,887 

Total 1,596,079 

Substituting  these  figures  for  those  found  in  the  table,  I  be- 
lieve the  exact  population  of  the  State  will  be  given. 

Very  respectftiily. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

JOS.  C.  G.  KENNEDY,  SupH. 


U 


[Doc.  No.  14.] 


Population  of  the  State  of  Virginia,  according  to  the  Eighth 
Census,  taken  June  1,  1860. 


COUNTIES. 


Free 
Colored. 


Slaves. 


Aggregates. 


Accomac  .... 
Albcinarle  .  .  . 
Alexandria  .  . 
AUcgliany  . . . 

Amelia 

Amherst  .... 
Appomattox  . 

Angiista 

Barbour 

Bath 

Bedford 

Berkeley  .... 

Boone 

Botetourt  .  . . 

Braxton  

Brooke  

Brunswick. . . 
Buchanan  . . . 
Buckingham  . 

Cal)cll 

Callioun 

Caiiiplicll.  ... 

Caroline 

Girroll , 

Charles  City. . , 
Charlotte  ..".., 
Chesterfield. ., 

Clarke 

Clav 

Craig 

Culpepcr  .  .  .  . , 
Cumberland  . 
Dinwiddic  .  .  . 
Doddridge.  . . 
Elizabeth  City 
Essex 


Eairfax ..  .  . 
Eaufpiier  . . 
Fiivulte.. . . 

Floyd 

Fluvanna. . 
Franklin  .  . 
Frcderiek.. 

Giles 

Gilmer  .. .  . 
Gloucester. 
Goochland 
Grayson . . . 
Greene. . . . 


1 0,687 

12,205 
9,858 
5,(il.3 
2,894 
7,136 
4,113 

21,537 
8,729 
2,652 

14,390 

10,606 
4,681 
8,444 
4,885 
5,425 
4,993 
2,762 
6,041 
7,691 
2,492 

13,585 
6,950 
7,719 
1,806 
4,981 

10,018 
3,707 
1,761 
3,106 
4,964 
2,946 

13,675 
5,168 
3,180 
3,295 
8,047 

10,457 
5,716 
7,745 
5,102 

13,642 

13,082 
6,051 
3,685 
4,518 
3,814 
7,653 
3,019 


3,392 

504 

1,408 

132 
192 
333 
176 
576 
135 

78 

602 

269 

1 

303 

3 

51 

670 

1 

360 

24 

1 

1,032 

843 

31 
856 
252 
644 

64 
5 

27 
425 
310 
3,749 
1 
201 
478 
671 
792 

10 

16 

257 

105 

1,206 

54 

22 
7n2 
703 

62 

22 


4,507 

13,916 

1,386 

990 

7,667 

6,847 

4,600 

5,617 

95 

946 

10,176 

1,650 

158 

2,769 

104 

18 

9,148 

30 

8,811 

305 

9 

11,580 

10,672 

262 

2,947 

9,236 

8,355 

3,375 

21 

420 

6,675 

6,705 

12,774 

34 

2,417 

6,696 

3,117 

10,455 

271 

475 

4,994 

6,351 

2,259! 

778J 

52 

5,736 

6,1 39l 

5471 

1,9841 


18,586 

26,625 

12,652 

6,765 

10,753 

14,316 

8,889 

27,750 

8,959 

3,676 

25,068 

12,525 

4,840 

11,516 

4,992 

5,494 

14,811 

2,793 

15,212 

8,020 

2,502 

26,197 

18,465 

8,012 

5,609 

14,469 

19,017 

7,146 

1,787 

3,653 

12,064 

9,961 

30,198 

5,203 

5,798 

10,469 

11,835 

21,704 

5,997 

8,236 

10,363 

20.098 

16,547 

6,883 

3,759 

10,956 

10,656 

8,252 

6,025 


Carried  forward |  337,276|   22,641 


205,076]  564,993 


[Doc.  No.  U.] 


COUNTIES. 


Wliitcs. 


Free 

Coloreii. 


Slaves. 


Aggregates. 


Brought  forward. . 

Grecnhrior 

Grccnesville 

Halifax 

Haiiip.'iliirc 

Hancock  

Hanover 

Hardy 

Harrison 

Henrico 

Henry 

•Highland 

Lsle  of  Wight 

Jackson  

Janu's  City 

Jeflersou 

Kanawha 

King  &  Queen 

King  George 

King  William 

Lancaster 

Lee 

Lewis 

Logan  

Loudoun  

Louisa 

Lunenburg . 

McDowell 

Madison 

Marion 

Marshall 

Mason 

Matthews 

Mecklenburg 

Mercer 

Middlesex 

Monongalia 

Monroe 

Montgomery 

Morgan 

Nanseniond 

Nelson 

New  Kent 

Nicholas 

Norfolk  

Northampton 

Northuml)erland 

Nottowav 

Ohio...; 

Orange 

rage 

Patrick 

Pendleton 

Pittsylvania 

Pleasants 


Carried  forward 76C,70G 


337,276 

10,1<>0 

],'.'7:i 

11,(h;c. 

12,481 

4,412 

7,508 

8,r)2i 

18,185 

37,1*84 

6,77'.* 

3,8'.H) 

5,n5.S 

8,240 

2,  Kill 

10,(»'.t2 

18,787 

8,801 

2,518 

2,589 

1,981 

10,195 

7,78H 

4,789 

15,080 

(3,  Kit; 

4,447 

1,585 

4,864 

12,656 

12,936 

8,752 

8,805 

0,777 

0,428 

1,800 

12,907 

9,526 

8,259 

3,618 

5,742 

6,656 

2,146 

4,470 

24,348 

2,9'.i| 

8,871 

2,270 

22,190 

4,407 

6,875 

7,159 

5,si78 

]7,li>r, 


22,641 

180 

284 

658 

219 

1 

233 

270 

23 

3,591 

308 

27 

1,354 

11 

1,046 

523 

179 

388 

385 

415 

301 

13 

33 

1 

1,243 

389 

232 

93 

2 

86 

47 

218 
900 

28 
123 

40 
117 
139 

24 

2,470 

121 

364 

2 

2,812 

90G 

220 

98 
126 
188 
384 
130 

48 

059' 

4 


205,076 

1,525 

4,167 

14,897 

1,218 

2 

9,484 

1,073 

582 

20,041 

5,018 

402 

3,570 

5.- 

2,58( 

3,960 

2,184 

6,142 

3,673 

5,525 

2,869 

824 

230 

148 

6,499 

10,198 

7,305 

4,89 

08 

29 

38( 

3,008 

12,419 

30-J 

2,375 

101 

1,114 

2,217 

94 

5,481 

6,288 

3,374 

154 

9,008 

3,872 

3,489 

6,468 

100 

6,111 

850 

2,070 

244 

14,840 

1 


45,1131     406,567   1,218,390 


564,993 

12,210 

6,874 

20,521 

18,913 

4,445 

17,225 

9,864 

13,790 

61,616 

12,105 

4,319 

9,977 

8,306 

5,798 

14,576 

10,150 

10,881 

6,575 

8,529 

5,151 

11,032 

7,999 

4,988 

21,772 

10,098 

11,984 

1,585 

8,854 

12,721 

18,001 

9,185 

7,091 

20,096 

0,818 

4,364 

13,048 

10,757 

10,015 

3,781 

18,093 

18,015 

5,884 

4,026 

30,158 

7,832 

7,530 

8,836 

22  422 

10,' 706 

8,109 

9,859 

6,105 

32,104 

2,945 


[Doc.  No.  14.] 


COUNTIES. 


Whites. 


Free 
Colored. 


Slaves.     Aggregates. 


Brought  forward. 

Pocahontas 

Powhatan 

Preston 

Prince  Edward 

Prince  George 

Princess  Anne * 

Prince  William 

Pulaski 

Putnam 

Raleigh 

Randolph 

Rappahannock 

Richmond 

•  Ritchie 

Roano 

Roanoke 

Rockbridge 

Rockingham 

Russell 

Scott 

Shenandoah  

Smyth 

SotUhampton 

Spotsylvania 

StaffoVd 

Surry 

Sussex 

Tavlor 

Tazewell 

Tucker 

Tyler 

Upsliur 

Warren 

Warwick 

Wasliington 

Wayne 

Wcijstcr 

We>tmoreland 

Wetzel 

Wirt 

Wise 

Wood 

Wvominir 

Wvtlie..! 

York 


766,706 
3,686 
2,589 
13,183 
4.038 
'2,018 
4,335 
5,(189 
3,814 
5,708 
3,291 
4,793 
5,018 

3,.-; 

6,809 

5,309 

5,256 

12,845 

20,495 

9,030 

11,530 

12,829 

7,734 

5,757 

7,718 

4,922 

2,364 

3,118 

7,300 

8,627 

1,396 

6,488 

7,064 

4,686 

662 

14,098 

6,604 

1,552 

3,386 

6,691 

3,728 

4,416 

10,791 

2,797 

9,986 

2,353 


45,113 

20 

399 

62 

465 

496 

193 

520 

13 

13 

19 

14 

812 

820 

1 
149 

421 

526 

51 

52 

314 

181 

1,750 

572 

319 

1,254 

673 

51 

91 

12 

11 

16 

281 

59 

247 


1,192 
2 


26 
79 

157i 
671 


406,567 

252 

5,403 

67 

7,341 

4,996 

3,186 

2,356 

1,589 

580 

57 

183 

3,520 

2,466 

38 

72 

2,643 

3,984 

2,387 

1,099 

490 

753 

1,037 

5,409 

7,786 

3,314 

2,515 

6,384 

112 

1,202 

20 

18 

212 

1,575 

1,019 

2,548 

143 

3 

3,704 

10 

23 

66 

176 

64 

2,162 

1,925 


Total 1,047,5791       57,617      491,456  1,596,652 


1,218,390 

3,958 

8,391 

13,312 

11,844 

8,410 

7,714 

8,565 

5,416 

6,301 

3,367 

4,990 

8,850 

6,856 

6,847 

5,382 

8,048 

17,250 

23,408 

10,180 

12,072 

13,896 

8,952 

12,916 

16,076 

8,555 

6,133 

10,175 

7,463 

9,920 

1,428 

6,517 

7,292 

6,442 

1,740 

16,893 

6,747 

1,555 

8,282 

6,703 

3,751 

4,508 

11,046 

2,861 

12,305 

4,949 


Census  Office,  Dkp.mjt.mext  of  the  Txteimok,  7 
Washington,  March  5,  1801.      3 
I  certify  that  the  above  table  represents  the  true  number  of  the 
population  of  the  several  comities  in  the  State  of  Virginia,  as  re- 
turned by  the  Eiglith  Census. 

JOS.  C.  G.  KENNEDY. 


[DOC.  NO.  XV.l 


COMMUNICATION 


FROM 


A    COMMITTEE    ON    BEHALF 


OF  THE 


CONFERENCE  CONVENTION 


OP 


MARYLAND. 


[Doc.  No.  15.] 


COMMUNICATION. 


To  the  Honnrahle,  the  President  of  the  Convention  of  the  people 
of  Virginia: 

The  undersigned,  citizens  of  Maryland,  have  been  appointed 
a  committee  on  behalf  of  a  Conference  Convention,  representing 
a  portion  of  tlie  citizens  of  the  City  of  Baltimore,  and  of  nearly 
all  the  counties  of  Maryland,  to  communicate  with  the  Conven- 
tion over  which  you  preside,  in  reference  to  a  matter  in  which 
they  deem  themselves  deeply  concerned,  and  which  is  now  oc- 
cupying the  attention  of  your  body.  It  is  upon  the  subject  of 
the  proposed  Conference  with  the  Southern  Border  States. 

It  is  especially  to  be  understood,  that  in  anything  we  may  say, 
there  nmst  be  no  inference  that  tliis  particular  measure,  or  any 
other  is,  in  our  judgment,  or  in  the  opinion  of  those  persons 
whom  we  represent,  to  he  preferred.  VVe  entirely  disclaim  any 
purpose  even  to  suggest  what  would  be  the  judgment  of  our 
constituents,  did  the  occasion  make  it  proper  to  express  it.  Our 
design  is  solely  to  invite  the  attention  of  the  Convention  to  the 
importance  of  one  particular  consideration,  if  and  when  the  pro- 
posed Conference  shall  be  found  acceptable  to  your  Convention. 
In  that  event,  (believing,  as  those  whom  we  represent  have  in- 
structed us  to  say,  they  do  believe,)  that  the  peoyile  of  Maryland 
will  accept  such  an  invitation,  it  becomes,  as  we  respectfully 
suggest,  a  matter  of  equal  interest  to  each  and  all  of  the  Souih- 
crn  Border  States,  to  secure,  as  far  as  it  may  be  done,  a  full,  fair 
and  accurate  expression  of  the  popular  will,  in  such  form  as  to 
leave  no  doubt  either  of  its  character,  or  of  the  authority  of  those 
who  may  be  selected  as  its  agents  and  representatives. 

The  proposition  before  your  body  requires  the  delegates  to 
the  Conference  to  be  selected  by  the  "  proper  authorities  of 
those  States." 

If  any  existing  organized  department  of  the  Government  of 

Maryland  should  attempt  the  selection  of  deleijates  to  such  a 

Convention  as  is  proposed,  it  would  undoubtedly  be  resisted  by 

the  people,  and;  iu  that  event;  couflicting  claunants  would  pre- 

12 


4  [Doc.  No.  15.] 

sent  themselves  as  riglitful  exponents  of  the  popular  sentiment, 
duly  entilicd  to  be  received  as  suoii. 

Our  sole  object  is  to  avoid,  by  the  terms  of  the  invitation,  all 
occasion  for  such  collision;  and,  with  this  view,  we  respectiuUy 
suggest  such  an  alteration  in  the  language  of  your  resolution  as 
will  express  its  object  to  be,  that  delegates  to  the  proposed  Oon- 
vention  shall  be  clcclcd,  either  directly  by  the  people^  or  through 
the  agency  of  a  sovereign  State  Convention. 

\\\  the  hope  and  expectation  that  this  request  will  he  fovorably 
considered  by  your  Convention,  we  have  the  honor  to  be,  very 
respectfully,  your  obedient  servants, 

W.  MITCHELL, 

E.  F.  CHAMBERS, 

WILLIAM  HENRY  NORRIS, 

ISAAC  D.  JONES, 

J.  HANSON  THOMAS. 


[DOC.  NO.  XYL] 


COMMUNICATION 


FROM    THE 


EXECUTE  OF  THE  C0M310XWEALTII, 


TRANSMITTING 


C0MMU5ICATI0SS 


FROM   THE 


PRESIDENT  OF  THE  STATE  CONVENTION 


OF 


A-RK^NS^S. 


[Doc.  No.  16.] 


Executive  Department,  "> 
April  8,  18GI.      f 

GentleTnen  of  the  Co7ivcjitio?i: 

On  Saturday  evening  last,  I  received  two  communications 
fi-om  Honorable  David  Walker,  President  of  the  State  Conven- 
tion of  Arkansas,  enclosing  an  Ordinance  and  Resolutions 
adopted  by  the  CouA'^ention,  on  the  20th  day  of  March,  1861. 
On  an  examination  of  the  resolutions,  it  will  be  seen  that  they 
were  intended  to  be  laid  before  the  General  Assembly,  but  as 
that  body  has  adjourned,  and  as  the  matters  to  which  they  re- 
late are  under  consideration  in  your  honorable  body,  I  have 
deemed  it  my  duty  to  transmit  them  to  you,  for  such  disposition 
as  you  may  think  proper  to  make  of  them. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


[Doc.  No.  16.] 


Little  Rock,  March  29,  1861. 

To  his  Excellency  John  Letcher, 

Governor  of  the  State  of  Virginia: 

Sir, — By  tlic  fifth  of  the  series  of  resohitions  which  I  have 
the  honor  herewitli  to  transmit  to  you,  and  whicli  were  adopted 
by  the  State  Cnnvenlion  of  Arkansas,  on  the  2()th  day  of  March, 
1861,  I  have  respectfully  to  request  that  your  Excellency  will 
infirm  mo,  as  soon  as  convenient  and  practicable,  what  action 
your  State  has  taken  or  proposes  to  take  in  reference  to  the  pro- 
position to  hold  a  Border  Slave  State  Convention,  at  Frankfort, 
Kentuck}',  or  elsewhere,  during  the  coming  spring  or  summer. 

This  information  is  sought  with  a  view  to  guide  the  action  of 
the  Commissioners  or  Delegates  elected  by  the  Convention  of 
the  State  of  Arkansas  to  said  Convention  or  Conference  of  the 
Border  Slave  States,  should  one  be  held. 

I  trust  your  Excellency  will  furnish  the  desired  information 
at  your  earliest  convenience. 

My  post  office  address  is,  Fayetteville,  Washington  County, 
Arkansas. 

Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

DAVID  WALKER, 

PresH  of  the  State  Convention  of  Arkaiisas. 

By  E.  C.  Boudinot,  Secretary. 


[Doc.  No.  16.] 


Little  Rock,  ArkansaSj") 
March  28,  1861.      f 

His  Excellency  John  Letcher, 

Governor  of  the  State  of  Virgijiia: 

Sir, — Li  accordance  with  the  second  resohition  of  the  series 
herewith  enclosed,  I  have  the  honor  to  present  to  you  the  action 
of  the  Convention  of  the  people  of  the  State  of  Arkansas,  on 
the  subject  therein  treated  of,  and  respectfully  request  that  you 
will  place  it  before  your  Legislature,  at  the  earliest  convenient 
moment. 

I  would  be  pleased  to  hear  from  your  Excellency,  touching 
the  jiolitical  affairs  of  the  country,  and  of  the  proposed  reme- 
dies, for  existing  evils. 

My  post  office  address  is,  Fayetteville,  Washington  county, 
Arkansas. 

Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

DAVID  WALKER,  President. 

By  E.  C.  BouDiNOT,  Secj'etary. 


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[Doc.  No.  16.] 


RESOLUTIONS 

Passed  by  the  Convention  of  the  People  of  Arkansas,  on  the 
20th  day  of  March,  1861. 


Wc,  the  people  of  the  State  of  Arkansas,  in  Convention  as- 
sembled, in  view  of  the  unfortunate  and  distracted  condition  of 
our  once  happv  and  jtrosperous  country,  and  of  the  alarming 
dissensions  existing  between  the  Noitliern  and  Southern  sec- 
tions thereof,  and  desiring  that  a  fair  and  ecfuitable  adjustment 
of  the  same  may  be  made,  do  hereby  declare  the  following  to  be 
just  causes  of  complaint  on  the  part  of  the  people  of  the  South- 
ern States  against  their  brethren  of  the  Northern,  or  non-slave- 
holdnig  States: 

1.  The  people  of  the  N^orthcrn  States  have  organized  a  poli- 
tical party,  purely  sectional  in  its  character,  the  central  and 
controlling  idea  of  which  is  hostility  to  the  institution  of  African 
slavery,  as  it  exists  in  the  Southern  States;  and  that  party  has 
elected  a  President  and  Vice  President  of  the  United  States, 
pledged  to  administer  the  Government  n|)on  principles  inconsist- 
ent with  the  rights  and  subversive  of  the  interests  of  the  South- 
ern States. 

2.  They  have  denied  to  the  people  of  the  Southern  States  the 
right  to  an  equal  ))articipation  in  the  benefits  of  tbe  conmioii 
Territories  of  tbe  'Union  by  refusing  tliem  the  same  protection 
to  their  slave  property  thereiirthat  is  afforded  to  other  property, 
and  by  declaring  that  no  more  slave  States  shall  be  admitted 
into  the  Union.  They  have,  by  their  prominent  men  and  lead- 
ers, declared  tlie  doctrine  of  the  irrepressible  conflict,  or  the  as- 
sertion of  the  principle  that  the  institution  of  slavery  is  incom- 
patible with  frc(nlom,  and  that  both  cannot  exist  at  once;  that 
this  continent  nmst  be  wholl^?^  frt!e  or  wholly  slave.  They  have, 
in  one  or  more  instances,  refused  to  surrender  negro  thieves  to 
the  constitutional  demand  of  the  constituted  authority  of  a  sove- 
reign State. 


10  [Doc.  No.   16.] 

3.  They  have  declared  that  Congress  possesses,  under  the 
Constitution,  and  ought  to  exercise,  the  power  to  ahoHsh  slavery 
in  the  Territories,  in  the  District  of  Cohunbia,  and  in  the  forts, 
arsenals  and  dock-yards  of  the  United  States,  within  the  limits 
of  the  slaveholding  St:ites. 

4.  They  have,  in  disregard  of  their  constitutional  obligations, 
obstructed  the  faithful  execution  of  the  fugitive  slave  laws  by 
enactments  of  their  Slate  Legislatures. 

5.  They  have  denied  the  citizens  of  Southern  States  the  right 
of  transit  through  nonslavchohling  States  with  their  slaves,  and 
tiie  right  to  hold  them  while  temporarily  sojourning  therein. 

6.  They  have  degraded  American  citizens  by  placing  them 
upon  an  equality  M'iih  negroes  at  the  ballot-box. 

To  redress  the  grievances  hereinbefore  complained  of,  and  as 
a  means  of  restoring  harmony  and  fraternal  good  will  between 
tiie  people  of  all  the  States,  the  following  amendments  to  the 
Constitution  of  the  United  States  are  proposed: 

1.  The  President  and  Vice  President  of  the  United  States 
shall  each  be. chosen  alternately  from  a  slaveholding  and  non- 
slaveholding  State;  but  in  no  case  shall  both  be  chosen  from 
slaveholding  or  non  slaveholding  States. 

2.  In  all  the  territory  of  the  United  States  now  held,  or  which 
may  hereafter  be  acquired,  situate  north  of  latitude  86°  SCK 
slavery,  or  involuntary  servitude,  except  as  a  punishmmit  for 
crime,  is  prohibited  while  such  territory  shall  remain  under  ter- 
ritorial government.  In  all  the  territory  now  held,  or  which 
may  hereafter  be  acquired,  south  of  said  line  of  latitude,  slavery 
of  the  African  race  is  hereby  recognized  as  existing,  and  shall 
not  be  interfered  with  by  Congress,  but  shall  be  protected  as 
property  by  all  the  departments  of  the  territorial  goveriunent 
during  its  continuance.  And  when  any  territory,  north  or  south 
of  said  line,  within  such  boundaries  as  Congress  may  jiicscribe, 
shall  contain  the  population  requisite  for  a  meiuber  of  Congress, 
according  to  tlie  then  federal  ratio  of  representation  of  the  people 
of  the  United  States,  it  shall,  if  its  form  of  government  be  re- 
publican, be  adnutted  into  tlie  Union  on  an  equal  footing  with 
the  original  States,  with  or  without  slavery,  as  the  constitution 
of  such  new  State  may  provide. 

3.  Congress  shall  have  no  power  to  legislate  ujion  the  subject 
of  slavery,  except  to  protect  the  citizen  in  his  right  of  property 
in  slaves. 

4.  That  in  addition  to  the  provisions  of  the  third  paragraph 
of  the  second  section  of  the  fourth  article  of  the  Constitution  of 
the  United  States,  Congress  shall  have  power  to  provide  bylaw, 
and  it  shall  be  its  duty  so  to  provide,  that  the  United  States 
shall  pay  to  the  owner  who  shall  apply  fiir  it,  the  iull  value  of 
his  fugitive  slave  in  all  cases  when  the  marshal  or  other  officer 


[Doc. No.  IG.]  11 

whose  duty  it  wt\s  to  arrest  snid  fugitive  was  prevented  from  so 
doing  by  violence;  or  wlien,  after  arrest,  said  fugiiive  was  res- 
cued by  fiirco,  and  the  owner  thereby  prevented  and  obstructed 
in  the  pursuit  of  his  remedy  for  the  recovery  of  his  fugitive 
slave  under  the  said  clause  of  the  Constitution  and  the  laws 
made  in  pursuance  thereof.  And  in  all  such  cases,  when  the 
United  States  shall  pay  for  such  fugitive,  they  shall  have  the 
right,  in  their  own  name,  lo  sue  the  county  in  which  said  vio- 
lence, intimidation,  or  rescue  was  commilted,  and  to  recover 
from  it,  with  interest  and  damages,  tlie  amount  paid  by  them  for 
said  fugitive  slave.  And  the  said  county,  after  it  has  paid  said 
amount  to  the  United  States,  may,  for  its  indemnity,  sue  and 
recover  from  the  wrong-doers  or  rescuers,  by  whom  the  owner 
was  prevented  from  the  recovery  of  his  fugitive  slave,  in  like 
manner  as  the  owner  himself  might  have  sued  and  recovered. 

5.  The  third  paragraph  of  the  second  section  of  the  fourth 
article  of  the  Coiistitution  shall  not  be  construed  to  prevent  any 
of  the  States  from  having  concurrent  jurisdiction  with  the 
United  States,  by  a])propriate  legislation,  and  through  the  action 
of  tlu-ir  judicial  and  ministerial  officers,  from  enforcing  the  de- 
livery of  fugitives  from  labor  to  the  person  to  whom  such  ser- 
vice or  labtn-  is  due. 

6.  Citizens  of  slavehohling  States,  when  travelling  throug-h, 
or  temporarily  sojourning  with  their  slaves  in  non-slaveholding 
States,  shall  be  protected  in  their  right  of  pro[)erty  in  such 
slaves. 

7.  The  elective  franchise  and  the  right  to  hold  office,  whether 
federal,  State,  territorial  or  municipal,  shall  not  be  exercised  by 
persons  of  tfie  African  race,  in  whole  or  in  part. 

8.  These  amendments,  and  the  third  paragraph  of  the  second 
•section  of  the  first  article  of  the  Constitution,  and  the  third 
paragraph  of  the  second  section  of  the  f mrth  article  thereof, 
shall  not  be  amended  or  abolished  without  the  consent  of  all 
the  States. 

That  the  sense  of  the  people  of  the  United  States  mav  be 
taken  upon  the  amendments  above  proposed, 

Rcsnirfd  by  the  people  nf  Arkansas,  in  Conveiition  assembled, 
That  we  recommend  the  calling  of  a  c.onventiou  of  the  States  of 
the  fexler;d  Union,  at  the  earliest  practicable  day,  in  accordance 
with  the  provisions  of  the  filth  article  of  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States. 

2.  Resolved  furUier,  That  the  President  of  this  Convention 
transmit  to  the  President  and  Congress  of  the  United  States, 
and  to  the  Governors  and  Legislatures  of  the  several  Slates,  a 
copy  of  tliese  proceedings. 

3.  Resolved  further,  That  looking  to  the  call  of  a  national 
convention^,  as  recoinraended  iii  the  first  re.^.olution  above,  this 


12  [Doc.  No.  IC] 

Convention  elect  five  delegates  to  represent  the  State  of  Arkan- 
sas in  such  Convention. 

4.  Rcsoh'cd  furt/icr,  That  a  rommittee  of  five  delegates  of 
this  Convention  be  ajipointed  to  prepare  an  address  to  the  people 
of  liie  United  Slates  nrginj?  iipnn  them  the  inipnrtanre  of  a 
nnited  elTort  on  the  part  of  the  patriotic  citizens  of  all  sections 
and  parties  to  save  the  oonntry  from  the  dangers  which  impend 
it,  and  which  threaten  its  destinction,  and,  especidly,  to  arrest 
the  reckless  and  fanaticpl  s|)irit  of  sectionalism  North  and  South, 
which,  if  not  arrested,  will  inevitably  involve  us  in  a  bloody 
civil  war. 


[Doc.  No.  16.]  13 


AN  OPiDINAXGE  AND  EESOLUTIOXS 

Recommejided  by  a  Conference  Committee,  and  passed  by  the 
State  Convention,  on  Wednesday,  March  20,  1S61. 


An  ordinance  to  provide  for  holding  an  election  in  the  State  of 
Arh'ofisas,  for  the pi/rposc  of  taking  the  sense  of  the  people  of 
the  State,  on  the  question  of  ^^  Cooperation''^  or  "Seccssioji.^^ 

Sec.  1.  Be  it  oi'dained  by  the  people  of  the  State  of  Arkan- 
sas in  Convention  assembled ,  That  an  election  shall  be  held,  in 
all  the  counties  in  this  State,  on  ^Monday,  the  fifth  day  of  An- 
gnst,  1861,  at  which  the  question  of  "Cooperatinn"  or  "Se- 
cession" shall  be  submitted  to  the  people  of  this  State;  which 
election  shall  be  held  and  conducted,  in  all  respects,  in  accor- 
dance with  the  laws  ol  the  State  now  in  force,  prescribing  the 
manner  of  holding  elections;  Provided,  that  the  sheriffs  of  the 
several  counties  shall  be  required  to  give  at  least  thirty  days 
notice  of  the  time  and  places  of  holding  said  elections  by  adver- 
tisement thereof  as  required  by  law  for  ordinary  elections. 

Sec.  2  Be  it  further  ordained,  That  the  ballots  or  tickets  to 
be  used  in  said  election  shall  be  indorsed  "for  cooperation"  or 
*<fnr  secession,"  from  which  ballots  counts  shall  be  made  by 
the  judges,  and  they  shall  ascertain  how  many  votes  are  cast 
for  "coofKiration"  and  how  many  are  cast  for  "secession"  at 
their  respective  precincts,  and  shall  duly  certify  the  result  of 
said  counts  and  make  return  thereof  to  the  clerk  of  their  respec- 
tive counties,  who  shall  open  and  compare  said  returns  as  they 
are  now  recpiired  by  law  to  open  and  compare  other  oleetions; 
and  each  clerk  shall  make  an  abstract  of  the  vote  of  his  county, 
tipon  the  question  of  •' secession"  or  "cooperation,"  and  file 
the  same  in  his  oflice;  and  shall,  alsn,  al  the  .same  time,  make 
out,  under  his  seal,  and  deliver  to  the  delegate  or  delegates  from 


H  [Doc.  No.  16.] 

liis  roiinly  to  tins  Convpiilion,  a  copy  of  said  abstract,  to  be  re- 
turned by  them  to  the  oHice  of  ^Secretary  of  State,  as  hereinafter 
provided. 

Sec.  3.  Be  it  fttrthrr  orr/aincr/,  That  tlie  delegates  to  tliis 
Convention  shall  be  made  special  rcturnini^  olficcrs,  to  bring  up 
the  rertififd  vote  of  their  respective  counties,  on  the  (piestion  of 
''cooperation"  or  "secession,"  to  the  olilce  of  the  Secretary 
of  State;  whicH  vote,  from  all  the  counties,  shall  be  opened  and 
counted  by  the  Secretary  of  State,  in  presence  of  the  Governor, 
audited  and  treasurer,  or  any  two  of  them,  on  INIonday  the  nine- 
tciMilh  day  of  August,  i.^'OI;  and  said  ollicers,  or  any  three  of 
them,  shall  certify  to  the  President  of  this  Convention,  when 
the  same  shall  be  again  convened,  as  hereinafter  provided,  the 
whole  number  of  votes  cast  in  the  State  "for  cooperation," 
and  the  whole  number  of  votes  cast  "  lor  secession;"  and,  if 
from  any  cause,  any  delegate  shall  be  unable  to  bring  up  the 
vote  of  his  county,  as  herein  provided,  he  shall  have  power,  and 
it  shall  be  his  duty  to  apj)oint  a  special  messenger  to  be  the 
bearer  of  the  same,  in  his  stead;  and  if  from  any  cause,  there 
should  be  no  delegate  fnmi  any  county,  then  the  clerk  of  said 
county  sfiall  apj)oiut  a  messenger  to  bring  up  the  vote  thereof. 

Sec.  4.  Be  it  further  ordaitied,  That  the  delegates,  or  other 
messengers,  who  shall  bring  up  the  votes  of  the  different  coun- 
ties, shall  receive  the  same  mileage  as  is  provided  to  be  paid  to 
returning  officers  by  the  act  of  the  General  Assembly  calling 
this  Convention. 

Skc.  5.  Be  it  further  ordaiued,  That  if  it  shall  appear,  when 
the  residt  of  said  election  shall  be  made  known  to  tliis  Conven- 
tion, that  a  majority  of  all  the  legal  votes  cast  in  the  State  have 
been  cast  for  "secession,"  then,  in  that  event,  such  vote  shall 
be  taken  to  be  instructions  to  this  Convention  to  pass  an  act  of 
immediate  secession,  and  the  Convention  shall  at  once  pass  an 
ordinance,  dissolving  the  connection  existing  between  the  State 
of  Arkansas  and  the  Federal  Government,  known  as  "The 
United  States  of  America;"  but  if  a  majority  of  all  the  legal 
votes  have  been  cast  for  "cooperation,"  then  this  Convention 
shall  immediat(!ly  take  such  steps  as  may  be  deemed  proper  to 
further  cooperation  with  the  border,  or  unseceded,  slave  States, 
in  efforts  to  secure  a  permanent  and  satisfactory  adjustment  of 
the  sectional  controversies  disturbing  the  country. 

Skc.  0.  Be  it  further  ordained,  That  the  President  of  this 
Convention  be,  and  he  is  herebv  inslrncted  to  issue  bis  procla- 
mation, within  ten  days  after  the  adoption  of  this  ordinance,  to 
the  sheriffs  of  the  several  counties  in  the  State,  re(|uiring  them 
t()  bold  an  election,  in  their  resjx.'ctive  counties,  in  conformity  to 
the  i)rovisions  ol  this  ordinance.. 

Sec.  7.  Be  it  further  ordained,  That  when  this  Convention 


[Doc.  No.  16.]  15 

shall  adjourn,  it  shall  adjourn  to  meet  on  the  19th  day  of  Au- 
gust, 18G1. 


Resolutions  Adopted  by  the  State  Convention,  March 

20,  1S61. 

Whereas,  The  States  of  A^irgiiiia  and  Missouri,  in  Conven- 
tions assembled,  have  called  upon  the  border  slave  States,  to  wit: 
Delaware,  Maryland,  North  Carolina,  Tennessee,  Kentucky 
and  Arkansas,  to  unite  with  them  in  an  effort  to  accomplish  a 
satisfactory  adjustment  of  the  sectional  diflerences  which  threa- 
ten ruin  and  destruction  to  our  once  happy  and  prosperous 
Union;  and  whereas,  the  State  of  Virginia,  through  her  Con- 
vention, has  named  the  27th  day  of  May  next,  at  Frankforr, 
Kentucky,  as  a  suitable  time  and  place  fir  holding  a  Conference 
or  Convention  of  said  border  slave  States,  fjr  the  purpose,  if 
possible,  <.f  determining  upon  a  plan  of  adjustment  which  shall 
be  fair  and  equitable  to  all  the  States; 

And  u/iercas,  The  State  of  Missouri,  animated  by  a  like  pa- 
triotic desire  to  obtain  a  speedy  adjustment  of  our  difficulties, 
has  appointed  commissioners  instructed  to  represent  her  in  such 
Borde-r  State  Convention,  at  such  time  and  place  as  may  be 
agreed  upon  by  two  or  more  of  said  border  slave  States. 

Resolved,  1 .  B{/  the  people  of  the  State  of  Arkansas  in  Con- 
veniion  assembled,  That  we  accede  to  the  propositions  of  the 
States  of  Virginia  and  Missouri  for  the  holding  of  a  Convention 
of  the  border  slave  States,  declaring  it  to  be  our  desire  and  pur- 
pose to  cooperate  with  said  border  States  in  an  earnest  effo  t  to 
settle  the  unhappy  controversies  now  distracting  our  country,  in 
the  spirit  in  which  the  Constitution  of  our  Union  was  originally 
framed  and  consistently  with  its  principles,  and  in  such  a  man- 
ner and  upon  such  a  basis  as  shall  secure  to  the  people  of  the 
Southern  or  Slaveholding  States  adequate  guarantees  of  their 
rights. 

Resolved,  2.  That,  in  accordance  with  the  suggestion  of  the 
State  of  Virginia,  we  propose  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  and  the 
27th  day  of  ^lay  next,  as  a  smtablo  place  and  time  lor  holding 
said  conference  or  convention  of  the  border  slaves  States. 

Resolved,  3.  That  this  Convention  elect  five  comnnssioners 
or  delegates,  whose  duly  it  shall  be,  when  notified  by  the  Presi- 
dent ot  this  Convention,  that  a  majority  of  said  border  slave 
States  have  acceded  to  the  proposition  ol  the  States  ol  Virginia 
and  Missouri  for  holding  a  JJordcr  Stale  Convention,  to  repair  to 
the  city  of  Frankfort,  or  to  such  other  place  as  may  be  agreed 
uj)oii,  on  the  day  designated  in  the  foregoing  resolution,  or  on 
14 


16  [Doc.  No.  16.] 

any  other  day  that  may  be  agreed  upon,  to  meet  such  commis- 
si ii<rs  or  dolojjaies,  as  may  he  appointed  by  said  hordor  slave 
>:  ;t<s,  (or  the  purpose  of  deliberating  upon  the  matters  herein- 
btforo  referrod  to. 

lifsoh'ff/,  i.  That  if  said  commissioners  or  delegates,  after 
fidl  and  free  confcrenr-e,  shall  agree  upon  any  plan  of  adjust- 
iiicnl,  or  u|xin  anv  course  of  action  to  be  pursued  by  said  States, 
then  the  commissioners  or  delegates  hereby  appointed,  shall  re- 
port the  same  to  an  adjourned  session  of  this  Convention  here- 
tofore provided  fir. 

Resoliff/,  5.  That  the  President  of  this  Convention  be  in- 
structed to  transmit,  immediately,  copies  of  these  resolutions  to 
the  exceutives  of  the  several  States  hereinbefore  named,  with 
the  re()ucst  that  said  executives  inlorm  him, 'as  soon  as  practi- 
cable, of  the  action  of  their  respective  States  in  reference  to  the 
projvisition  for  a  Border  Slave  State  Convention,  and  that,  when 
intormcd  that  a  majority  of  said  States  have  agreed  U))on  a  time 
and  plare  for  holding  such  Convention,  he  shall  (()rthwitii  in- 
form the  coininissioners  or  delegates  elected  under  the  provisions 
of  the  third  resolution  above,  of  that  fact. 

Jirsn/iff/.  0.  That  the  commissioners  or  delegates,  lierein  pro- 
vided for,  shall  receive,  ibr  their  services,  whilst  in  attendance  on 
the  .sittings  of  said  Border  State  Convention,  the  same  pay,  both 
a.s  to  per  diem  and  nnleage,  as  is  allowed,  by  law,  to  members 
of  this  C(Mivention,  to  be  paid  upon  the  certificate  of  the  Presi- 
dent of  this  Convention,  out  of  any  moneys  in  the  State  trea- 
sury not  otherwise  appropriated. 


[DOC.  NO.  xmi 


REFORT 


FROM   THE 


COMMITTEE  APPOINTED  TO  WAIT 


UPON   THE 


PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 


TO    ASCERTAIN    HIS    POLICY    TOWARD   THE 


CONFEDERATED  STATES, 


AND    THE    RESPONSE    FROM 


THE  FEDERAL  EXECUTIVE. 


[Doc.  No.  17.] 


REPORT. 


The  Committee  appointed  on  the  8th  instant,  by  this  Conven- 
tion, with  direction  to  wait  upon  the  President  of  the  United 
States,  and  present  to  him  the  preamble  and  resolution  adopted 
on  that  day,  beg  leave  to  report:  That  in  the  fulfilment  of  our 
duty  wc  left  the  City  of  Richmond  on  the  morning  of  the. 9th 
inst.,  for  Washington  City;  we  were,  however,  prevented  by  in- 
juries sustained  by  the  rail  road,  from  a  violent  and  protracted 
storm,  from  reaching  Washington,  until  11  o'clock  on  Friday 
the  12th  inst.  At  1  o'clock  on  that  day  we  called  on  the  Presi- 
dent and  informed  him  that  we  had  been  appointed  a  Committee 
by  the  Convention  of  Virginia,  then  in  session,  to  make  a  com- 
munication to  liim  from  tliat  body  and  requested  him  to  desig- 
nate an  hour  at  which  it  would  be  agreeable  to  him  to  receive 
us.  He  replied  that  he  wonM  be  happy  to  receive  us  at  9  o'clock 
the  next  morning.  We  accordingly  attended  him  at  that  liour, 
presented  him  the  resolution  of  the  Convention  and  explained 
to  him  our  mission.  He  then  read  to  us  a  paper  which  he  stated 
he  had  just  prepared,  as  the  answer  to  the  communication  from 
the  Convention,  declaring  that  he  had  seen  in  the  newspapers 
the  proceedings  of  the  Convention  and  the  character  of  our  mis- 
sion. Wc  herewith  communicate  the  President's  reply  to  the 
preamble  and  resolution  of  the  Convention. 

WM.  BALLARD  PRESTON, 
ALEX.  H.  H.  STUART, 
GE(3RGE  W.  RANDOLPH. 


[Doc.  No.  17.] 


THE  PRESIDENT'S  REPLY  TO  THE  COMMITTEE  OF 
THE  VIRGINIA  CONVENTION. 


Hon.  Messrs.  Prfston,  Stuart  and  Randolph: 

Gentlemen, — As  a  Committee  of  the  Virginia  Convention,  now 
in  session,  you  present  me  a  preamble  and  resolution,  in  these 
words : 

<*  Whereas,  in  the  opinion  of  this  Convention,  the  uncertainty 
which  prevails  in  the  pubHc  mind  as  to  the  pohcy  which  the  Fe- 
deral Executive  intends  to  pursue  towards  the  seceded  States  is 
extremely  injurious  to  the  industrial  and  conmiercial  interests  of 
the  country,  tends  to  keep  up  an  excitement  which  is  unfavora- 
ble to  the  adjustment  of  pending  difficulties,  and  threatens  a  dis- 
turbance of  the  public  peace:  therefore, 

"  Resofver/,  That  a  comuiittec  of  three  delegates  be  appointed 
to  wait  on  the  President  of  the  United  States,  present  to  him 
this  preamble  and  resolution,  and  respectfully  ask  him  to  com- 
municate to  this  Convention  the  policy  which  the  Federal  Exe- 
cutive intends  to  pursue  in  regard  to  the  Confederate  States." 

Jn  answer,  I  have  to  say,  that  having  at  the  beginning  of  my 
official  term  expressed  my  intended  policy  as  plainly  as  I  was 
able,  it  is  with  deep  regret  and  some  mortification  I  now  learn 
that  there  is  great  and  injurious  uncertainty  in  the  pul)lic  mind 
as  to  what  that  policy  is,  and  what  course  I  intend  to  pursue. 

Not  having  as  yet  seen  occasion  to  change,  it  is  now  my  pur- 

r)se  to  pursue  the  course  marked  out  in  the  Inaugural  Address, 
commend  a  careful  consideration  of  the  whole  document,  as 
the  best  expression  1  can  give  of  my  purposes.  As  I  then  and 
therein  said,  I  now  repeat: 

''The  jiower  confided  to  me  will  be  tised  to  hold, occupy,  and 
possess  file  property  and  places  belonging  to  the  Government, 
and  to  collect  the  duties  atid  imposts;  but  beyond  what  is  ne- 
cessary for  these  objects  there  will  be  no  invasion,  no  using  of 
force  against  or  among  the  people  anywhere." 


6  [Doc.  No.  17.] 

By  the  words  ^'properly  and  places  belonging  to  the  Govern- 
ment," I  chiefly  allude  to  the  military  posts  and  property  which 
were  in  the  possession  of  the  Government  when  it  came  to  my 
hands. 

But  if,  as  now  appears  to  be  true,  in  pursuit  of  a  purpose  to 
drive  the  United  Slates  authority  from  these  places,  an  uujiro- 
voked  assault  has  been  made  upon  Fort  Sumter,  I  shall  hold 
myself  at  liberty  to  repossess,  if  1  can,  lik^  places  which  had 
been  seized  before  the  Government  was  devulved  upon  me. 

And,  in  any  event,  I  shall,  to  the  extent  of  my  ability,  repel 
force  by  force. 

In  case  it  proves  true  that  Fort  Sumter  has  been  assaulted,  as 
reported,  I  shall,  pcM'haps,  cause  the  United  States  mails  to  be 
withdrawn  from  all  ihe  States  which  claim  to  have  secedrd,  be- 
lieving that  the  conunencement  of  actual  war  against  the  Go- 
vernment justifies  and  possibly  demands  it. 

I  scarcely  need  to  say  that  1  consider  the  military  posts  and 
property  siiuat<.'d  wiihin  the  States  which  claim  to  have  seceded, 
as  yet  belonging  to  the  Government  of  the  United  States,  as 
much  as  they  did  befire  the  supposed  secession. 

Whatever  else  I  n)ay  do  for  the  purpose,  I  shall  not  attempt 
to  collect  the  duties  and  imposts  bv  any  armed  invasion  of  any 
part  of  the  country — not  meaning  by  this,  however,  that  I  may 
not  land  a  f  irce  deemed  necessary  to  relieve  a  fort  upon  the 
border  of  the  country. 

Fmm  the  I'act  that  I  have  quoted  a  part  of  the  Inaugural  Ad- 
dress, it  must  not  l)e  inferred  that  I  repudiate  any  other  part,  the 
whole  of  which  I  re-allirm,  exc(^pt  so  far  as  what  1  now  say  of 
the  mails  may  be  regarded  as  a  modification. 


[DOC.  NO.  XYIIL] 


RESOLUTIONS, 


ADOPTED  BY  THE 


46 


CONVENTION   OF  THE   PEOPLE," 


AT 


METROPOLITAN  HALL, 


IN  THE 


CITY    OF   mCHMOND, 


APRIL  18,  1801. 


15 


[Doc.  No.  18.] 


Richmond,  April  18,  1861. 

Hon.  John  Janney,  Pi^esideyit  of  the  State  Convention: 

Sir, — With  a  lieart  too  full  for  utterance  I  content  myself  with 
enclosing  to  you  authenticated  resolves  of  the  Convention  of 
tlie  people  nowassemhled  in  this  city,  adopted  vnaninwusJij,  un- 
der the  deepest  sense  of  llieir  responsibihty  to  the  Ahiiighty  God, 
and  our  beloved  State. 

Putting  our  whole  trust  in  the  God  of  our  fathers, 
1  am,  with  high  respect, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

S.  BASSETT  FRENCH. 


[Doc.  No.  18.] 


RESOLUTIONS. 


In  Convention  of  the  people  held  in  the  Metropolitan  Hall^  in 
the  city  of  Richmond,  on  Thnrsday,  ISth  April,  18GI, 

On  the  motion  of  the  Hon.  Willonghby  Newton,  it  was 

Resolved,  unwmnouslij ,  That  the  thanks  of  this  Convention 
be  cordially  tendered  to  the  State  Convention  for  the  noble  act  of 
patriotic  duty  which  they  have  just  performed;  and  forgetting  all 
past  dissensions,  we  will  rally  with  nnited  hearts  and  hands  in 
defence  of  the  honor,  safety  and  independence  of  Virginia,  and 
the  Confederate  States. 

On  the  motion  of  Col.  S.  Bassett  French, 

Resolved,  unanimously.  That  the  members  of  this  Convention 
do  here,  in  the  presence  of  Almighty  God  and  of  each  other, 
pledge  themselves  and  each  other,  their  fortunes  and  sacred 
honors,  in  defence  of  their  native  soil. 

Ordered,  That  the  Secretary  of  this  Convention  be  directed 
to  deliver  a  copy  of  the  foregoing  resolutions  to  the  President  of 
the  State  Convention  and  to  the  Governor  of  this  Common- 
wealth. 

A  copy  teste: 

S.  BASSETT  FRENCH,  Secretary. 


[DOC.  NO.  XIX.] 


REPORT 


OB  THE 


COMMITTEE 


ON  THE  SUBJECT  OP 


TAXATIOIT. 


[Doc.  No.  19.] 


REPORT. 


The  committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  duty  of  inquiring 
into  the  expediency  of  amending  sections  22  and  23  of  article  4 
of  the  Constitution,  so  as  to  provide  that  taxation  shall  be  equal 
and  uniform  throughout  the  Commonwealth,  &.c.  have  had  the 
matter  referred  to  them  under  consideration,  and  beg  leave  to 
submit  the  following,  as  proper  to  be  adopted  in  the  place  and 
stead  of  said  sections  22  and  23,  to  Avit: 

Taxation  shall  be  equal  and  unifirm  tliroughout  the  Common- 
wealth, and  all  properly  shall  be  taxed  in  proportion  to  its  value, 
which  shall  be  ascertained  in  such  manner  as  maybe  prescribed 
by  law;  but  any  properly  may  be  exempted  from  taxation  by  the 
vote  of  a  majority  of  the  whole  number  of  members  elected  to 
each  house  of  the  General  Assembly. 

W.  T.  WILLEY,  Chairman. 


16 


[DOC.  NO.  XX.] 


REPORT 


IN  RELATION  TO   THE 


AUTHORITY 


OF  THE 


FEDERAL  G0VERHE5T 


WITHIN   THE 


LIMITS  OF  THIS  COMMOXWEALTH. 


[Doc.  No.  20.] 


REPORT. 


The  select  committee  appointed  to  inquire  into  tlio  expediency 
of  suspending  the  autliority  of  the  Federal  Government  within 
the  Hmits  of  this  Commonwealth,  until  the  sense  of  the  people 
of  this  State  shall  be  taken  upon  the  ratification  of  the  ordi- 
nance already  adopted,  have  had  the  subject  under  considera- 
tion, and  directed  me  to  report  the  accompanying  ordinance. 

R.  E.  SCOTT. 

Whereas,  the  President  of  the  United  States,  in  his  response  to 
the  resolution  of  this  Convention,  requesting  intorination  touch- 
ing the  policy  intended  to  be  pursued  by  him  towards  the  f^on- 
fedcrate  States  of  America,  and  by  his  proclamation  calling  forth 
the  militia  of  the  snveral  States  of  the  Union,  to  the  aggregate 
number  of  seventy-five  thousand,  has  indicated  an  intention  un- 
der the  pretext  of  suppressing  insurrections,  and  repelling  inva- 
sions, of  waging  war  upon  the  Confederate  States;  and,  whereas 
the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  gives  to  Congress  alone,  the 
power  to  declare  war,  and  such  power  assumed  by  the  President 
will,  in  the  opinion  of  this  Convention,  be  plainly  a  usurped  pow- 
er; and,  whereas,  by  an  ordinance  adopted  by  this  Convention, 
the  union  existing  between  the  State  of  Virginia  and  the  other 
States  under  the  Constitution  of  the  United  Slates  is  declared  to 
be  dissolved,  as  an  act  of  the  seventeenth  day  of  April,  eighteen 
hundred  and  sixty-one,  wiien  the  same  shall  be  ratified  by  the 
qualified  voters  of  the  ComHioiiwcalth; 

Now,  therefore,  to  relieve  the  people  of  tlic  Commonwealth 
from  any  supposed  obligation,  in  the  meantime,  to  the  military 
orders  of  the  Executive  authorities  of  the  United  States,  be  it 

Ordained  by  this  Convcfition,  That  until  the  ratification  or 
rejection  of  the  aforesaid  ordinance  in  the  manner  provided 
therein,  the  people  of  this  Commonwealth  are  discharged  and 
absolved  from  tlie  obligation  of  obedience  to  the  military  orders 
of  the  said  Executive  authorities  of  the  United  States;  and  they 
are  hereby  enjoined  and  required  to  submit  themselves  in  all 
things  to  the  direction  of  the  proper  authorities  of  this  Com- 
monwealth. 


I 


[DOC.  NO.  XXI.] 


REPORT 


IN  RELATION  TO  THE 


DUTIES 


OP 


POST  MASTERS 


AND 


OFFICEES  IN  THE  REVENUE  SERVICE. 


[Doc.  No.  21.] 


REPORT. 


The  committee  who  were  charged  with  the  duty  of  inquiring 
into  the  expediency  of  reporting  an  ordinance  regulating  the 
duties  of  post  masters  and  officers  in  the  service  of  the  United 
States,  and  to  whom  was  also  referred  the  message  of  the  Cover 
nor  with  th(^  accompanying  letters  of  Tazewell  Taylor,  John 
S.  Parker,  C(>llect«ir  of  the  cnstoms  of  the  district  of  (.'herrystime, 
and  of  Sanniel  V.  W^atkiiis,  surveyor  of  the  f)ort  of  Richmond 
and  Petersburg,  beg  leave  to  report: 

That  th<y  would  recommend  thot  the  Governor  of  the  Com- 
monwealth be  requested  to  instruct  the  several  collectors  of  the 
cnstoms,  suiveyors  of  the  ditferent  ports  of  entry  and  the  post 
masters  in  this  Conmionwealth  to  retain  and  exercise  the  func- 
tions of  their  respective  offices;  that  the  collectors  of  the  customs 
of  the  several  ports  collect  the  duties  on  foreign  importations 
under  the  existing  laws  of  the  United  States;  that  they  enrol 
and  license  vessels  under  the  said  laws  as  heretofore,  and  that 
they  account  for  and  pay  into  the  public  treasury  of  this  State 
all  public  moneys  collected  by  them,  less  iheir  usual  salaries 
and  commissiims  t)  which  they  may  be  entitled  under  the  laws 
of  the  United  States.  And  they  recommend  that  similar  in- 
structions, so  far  as  they  may  be  applicable,  be  given  to  the  post 
masters  of  this  Stale,  exf^ept  that  they  shall  be  instructed  to  pay 
the  ditferent  contractors  for  carrying  the  public  mails  the  same 
sums  as  ihey  have  been  heretofore  m  the  habit  of  paying  under 
orders  of  the  Post  Master  General  of  the  United  States,  and 
shall  be  required  to  pay  into  the  public  treasury  of  ihis  State 
only  the  surplus  moneys  which  may  remain  in  their  hands  after 
making  snrh  payments.  And  they  recommend  that  the  said 
collect  rs  of  customs  and  post  masters  shall  be  required  to  make 
reports  to  the  Governor  of  this  State  as  they  have  been  in  the 
habit  heretofore  of  making  to  the  ditfer'Mit  departments  of  the 
Federal  Government  to  which  they  were  respectively  attached. 

And  ihe  committee  further  recommend,  ihat  the  Governor  in- 
struct the  paymaster  at   Norfolk  to  discharge  the  duties  of  navy 
agent  at  that  port,  if  the  discharge  of  such  office  be  not  inconi- 
17 


4  [Doc.  No.  21.] 

patible  •with  the  other  duties  which  said  paymaster  has  to  per- 
form, in  which  event  lie  is  auihnrizcd  to  appoint  George  Loyally 
of  Norfolk,  navy  agent  of  the  said  port. 

And  the  committee  fnrther  reconnnend,  that  these  regulations 
sliall  be  in  force  until  otherwise  order(;d  hy  this  Convention,  or 
uniil  the  Government  of  the  C'mfederate  Slates  of  America  shall 
take  control  of  the  several  offi-es  hereinhefore  mentioned,  and 
prescribe  n^gulations  for  the  proper  discharge  of  the  duties  and 
appointment  of  the  officers  to  the  same. 

And  the  committee  reconmiend  further,  that  tlie  Governor  of 
the  Commonwealth  he  furnished  with  a  copy  of  this  report  as 
soon  as  the  same  shall  be  approved  and  adopted  by  the  Conven- 
tion; if  the  same  shall  be  approved. 

All  which  is  respectfully  reported. 

MIERS  W.  FISHER, 
Chairman  of  the  Conimiiiee, 


[DOC.  m.  XXIL] 


COMMUNICATION 


FROM  THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


NOMIXATING 


BRIGADIER  GE5ERALS, 


AND  TRANSMITTING  A  STATEMENT  OF  THE 


REASOISrS 


FOR  HIS  ACTION  IN  THE   CASE  OF 


GENERAL  FAUNTLEROY. 


[Doc.  No.  22.] 


Executive  Department,  ") 
June  14,  1861.      $ 

Gentlemen  of  the  Cojivention: 

Col.  Thomas  T.  Faiiiitlcroy  was  nominated  by  me  as  a  Bri- 
gadier General  in  the  Provisional  Army,  and  (^ol.  Benj'n  Hnger 
was  nominated  as  a  Brigadier  Generral  of  Vohmtecrs,  and  both 
nominations  were  confirmed  by  the  Council.  I  now  communi- 
cate those  nominations  to  your  honorable  body,  in  obedience  to 
an  ordinance  passed  by  yon,  for  your  action. 

In  making  these  nominations  to  you  I  deem  it  proper  to  trans- 
mit the  enclosed  paper,  which  embodies  my  reasons  for  the  ac- 
tion I  deemed  it  proper  to  take  in  the  case  of  General  Fauntleroy. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


[Doc.  No.  22.] 


Executive  Department,") 
May  10,  1S(31.     j" 

To  the  Council:  v 

T  am  instriirted  by  the  Gnvernnr  to  say  that  he  nominates  CoL 
Fanntleroy,  late  Colonel  United  Stales  Dragoons,  as  Brigadier 
General  in  the  Provisional  Army  of  Virginia. 

Very  respectfully, 

S.  BASSETT  FRENCH, 
A.  D.  C.  to  Governor  of  Virginia. 


May  14,  18G1. 

The  Council  nnanimonsly  advise  that  at  present  no  appoint- 
ments of  Brigadier  Generals  be  made  for  the  Provisional  Army 
of  Virginia,  and  that  the  Governor  be  respectfully  requested  to 
withdraw  the  nomination  of  T.  T.  F"'auntleroy  as  Brigadier  Gen- 
eral, and  that  he  be  appointed  a  Colonel  of  Infantry,  to  take  rank 
according  to  the  provisions  of  the  Ordinance  of  Convention  with 
reference  to  officers  of  the  army  and  na\7-,  retiring  from  the  army 
and  navy  of  the  late  United  States. 


May  15,  1861. 

I  regret  that  I  cannot  concur  in  the  recommendation  made  by 
the  Council  in  the  case  of  Colonel  Fanntleroy.  If  I  am  correctly 
informed,  Colonel  Fanntleroy  ranked  General  Lee  in  the  United 
Stales  army,  and  if  this  be  so,  it  seems  to  me  that  he  is  justly 
entitled  to  the  conmiission  of  a  Brigadier  General  in  the  Provi- 
sional Army.  This  seems  to  me  to  bo  in  accordance  with  the 
spirit  and  intention  of  the  Ordinance  of  the  Convention,  passed 
on  the  17th  day  of  April,  1861. 

The  legislature  of  Virginia,  (by  an  unanimous  vote,  I  believe,) 
adopted  a  preamble  and  resolutions  complimentary  to  Colonel 
Fanntleroy,  ni  which  he  was  ''cordially  commended  to  the 
Honorable  Secretary  of  War,  and  to  his  Excellency,  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Ignited  States,  for  promotion  to  the  rank  of  Brigadier 
General."  With  this  expression  of  sentiment  on  the  part  of  the 
General  Assembly  of  the  Stale,  respecting  his  services,  I  have 
not  felt  that  it  wotdd  be  proper  to  tender  to  him  a  lower  position 
than  that  of  Brigadier  General.     Session  Acts,  1859-60,  p.  706. 


6  [Boc.  No.  22.] 

The  ordinance  of  the  27th  day  of  April,  1861,  ^' to  provide 
for  the  organization  of  a  Provisional  Army"  provides  for  the  ap- 
pointojcnt  of  four  Brigadier  Generals,  one  of  which  ]ilaces,  it 
seems  to  me,  is,  under  all  the  circumstances,  justly  due  to  Col. 
FaJintleroy. 

These  are  the  reasons  which  have  controlled  my  action  in 
making  this  nomination,  and  I  respectfully  request  that  they  may 
be  entered  upon  your  Journal. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  LETCHER. 

To  the  Council. 

May  15,  1861. 

The  Council  approve  the  nomination  of  Col.  Fauntleroy  to 
be  a  Brigadier  General  in  the  Provisional  Arniy. 

Ordered  by  the  Governor  that  a  commission  be  issued  ac- 
cordingly. 


[DOC.  NO.  xxm.] 


COMMUNICATION 


FROM   THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


TRANSMITTING 


THE   ADVICE    OF   THE   COUNCIL,  &c., 


IN    REGARD 


TO  THE  OFFICERS 


OP 


THE  VHIGINIA  NAVY. 


18 


[Doc.  No.  23.] 


In  Council,  June  14,  1861. 

The  following  advice  was  unanimously  adopted  by  the 
Coniicil : 

Whereas  the  Governor  of  the  Commonwealth,  by  proclama- 
tion of  the  6th  instant,  has,  according  to  the  terms  of  the  Con- 
vention between  the  State  of  Virginia  and  the  Confederate  Stales, 
formally  transferred  to  the  President  the  chief  control  and  direc- 
tion of  the  whole  military  force  and  military  operations  of  the 
Commonwealth  ;  and  whereas  the  Conned  has  been  informed 
that  it  is  proposed  to  disrate  certain  highly  meritoriiins  officers  of 
the  Virginia  Navy  by  conmiissions  assigning  to  them  in  the 
Confederate  Navy  a  lower  grade  than  that  held  by  them  in  the 
Virginia  Navy  ;  and,  further,  that  it  is  proposed  by  the  Confede- 
rate authorities  to  ignore  the  commissions  of  certain  other  ofR- 
rers  of  the  Virginia  Navy  as  well  As  of  the  Coast  Survey  and 
Revenue  Service  ;  and,  whereas  tlie  services  of  every  officer  and 
man  in  the  Navy  of  Virginia  are  at  present  rcqnired  to  make 
good  the  connnon  defence,  theref  )re  the  Council  advise  that  the 
Covernor  protest,  in  the  name  of  the  State,  against  such  action 
on  the  part  of  the  Confederate  States  as  detrimental  both  to  the 
State  and  the  public  service,  and  as  being  at  variance  with  the 
true  spirit  and  intent  of  said  Convention,  and  that  he  request  the 
President  to  receive  all  the  officers  aforesaid  as  a  part  of  the 
miMtary  force  of  the  State,  and  assign  them  to  duty  under  their 
Virginia  commissions,  until  the  subject  can  be  brought  before 
Congress  and  disposed  of  in  such  manner  as  they  in  tlieir  wis- 
dom may  prescribe  ;  and,  further,  that  the  Governor  communi- 
cate to  the  Convention,  now  in  session,  his  action  in  the 
premises. 


From  the  minutes. 


P.  F.  HOWARD, 

Secretary  of  the   Council. 


[Doc.  No.  23.] 


Executive  Department,") 
June  17,  1861.     j 


Gentlemen  of  the  Convention: 

I  transmit  the  advice  of  the  Council  arlo))ted  on  tlie  1  Itli  in- 
stant, accompanied  by  papers  furnished  by  Hon.  S.  R.  Mailory, 
Secretary  of  the  Navy  of  the  Confederate  States.  I  corihally 
approve  this  advice,  and  earnestly,  but  respccifuily,  rccpiest  that 
your  honorable  body  M'ill  give  to  this  important  subject  your 
early  attention.  It  is  enniiently  proper  that  you  should  do  so  in 
consideration  of  the  prompt  manner  in  which  these  gentlemen 
have  come  forward  to  tender  their  services  to  Virginia,  and  of 
the  valuable  aid  they  have  rendered  to  the  Commonwealth  at  a 
most  important  period  in  her  history. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


[Doc.  No.  23.] 


Confederate  States,  Navy  Department,  ) 
Ixichinond,  June  15,  1801.  J 

Sir — In  response  to  the  "Advice  of  tlie  Couneil,"  of  the  15th 
instant,  I  have  the  honor  to  forward  herewith  a  hst  of  such  offi- 
cers on  the  Navy  Register  of  the  Navy  of  A'irginia,  as  have  not 
been  appointed  in  the  Navy  of  the  Confederate  Ctates,  or  whose 
grade  in  the  latter  service  is  changed  from  that  held  in  the 
former. 

1  have  the  honor  to  he, 

Yery  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant^ 

S.  R.  MALLORY, 

Secretary  of  the  ]\avy^ 

P.  F.  Howard,  Esq., 

Secretary  of  the  Council  of  State,  Richmond,  Fa. 


[Doc.  No.  23.] 


LIST  OF  OFFICERS 

On  the  "  Navy  Register, ^^  of  the  Yirginia  Navij,  inhnsc  rank 
has  been  changed  by  their  appointment  into  the  Navy  of  the 
Confederate  States. 


Changed. 

Name. 

From — 

To— 

French  Forrest 

Flag  officer 

Captain 

Captain. 
Commander. 

Win   C.  Whittle        

...do 

Do. 

W.  G.  Robb        

...do 

Do. 

Robcrt'D.  Thorburn 

Reserved  Commander  .... 
do 

Active  Commander. 
Do. 

J.  W.  Cooke 

Commander 

Lieutenant. 

C.  F.  M.  Spot^wood 

do 

Do. 

W.  L.  Maury 

do 

Do. 

R.  B.  Pefrrani 

do 

Do. 

W.  C.  Whittle,  Jr 

W.  H.M.  Washington 

H.  B.  Littlepai^c 

Lieutenant 

Passed  Assistant  Surgeon. 
Midshipman 

Master. 

Assistant  Surgeon. 
Acting  Midshipman, 
Do. 

do 

W.  C.  Ilutter 

do 

Do. 

W.  W.  Read 

do 

Do. 

D.  Triffjr 

...   do 

Do. 

A.  J.  Worth 

do 

Do. 

W.  P.  Mason 

do 

Do. 

Robert  A.  Camm 

do 

Do. 

W.  C.  Jackson     

do 

Do. 

[Doc.  No.  23.] 


LIST  OF  OFFICERS 

On  the  "  Navy  Register,''  of  the  Navy  of  Virsmia,  who  have 
not  received  aj)j)ointmcnts  in  the  Navy  of  the  Confederate 
States. 


Captain Hugh  N.  Page. 

Do H.  H.  Cocke. 

Commander .Joseph  Myers. 

Do William  Greeti. 

Do William  Leigh. 

Lieutenant John  S.  Taylor. 

Do B.  W.  Hunter. 

Do W.  Taylor  Smith.      • 

Do C.  Sr.  (JenrL'e  Noland. 

Do Andrew  Wier, 

Do Beverly  Randolph. 

Do Leonard  H.  Lyiie, 

Do CliarlevS  E.  Thoiburn. 

Master H.  A.  F.  Young. 

Do James  Hicks. 

Do Thomas  Skinner. 

Surgeon A.  Y.  P.  Garneit. 

Midshipman J.  M.  Gardner. 

Do Orris  A.  Browne. 

Do VV.  R.  Mavo. 

Do S.  S.  Willett. 

Do J.  VV.  Pegram. 

Do M.  P.  Gnodwyn. 

Do George  T.  Sinclair. 

Do Mortimer  B.  Ruggles. 

Paymaster W.  H.  Peters. 

Do Richard  Taylor. 

Boatswain W.  H.  Face. 

Carpenter Hngh  l>indsay. 

Chief  Engineer Hugh  Clark. 


MARL\E   CORPS. 

Second   Lieutenant C.  Miles  Collier. 

Do Oley  Bradford. 

19 


10  [Doc.  No.  23.] 


REVENUE  SERVICE. 

Captain Richard  Evans. 

Do R.  K.  Hntlgins. 

Do Osmond  Peters. 

First  Lieutenant J.  F.  Milligan. 

Second  Lieutenant Jiiluisoii  D'Lngnel. 

Do W.  E.Hudgins. 

Do B.  VV.  Frobol. 

Do J.  R.  C.  Lewis. 

Navy  Agent George  Ley  all. 


[DOC.  NO.  XXIV.] 


COMMUNICATION 


FROM   THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


TRANSMITTING 


A  STATEMENT   OF   THE   NUMBER  AND   RANK 


OF   THE 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  PROVISIONAL  ARMY 


OF 


VIRGINIA. 


[Doc.  No.  4.] 


Executive  Department^  > 
June  17,  1861.         f 
Gentlemen  of  the  Convention : 

I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  a  statement  of  the  number  and 
rank  of  the  oflicers  appointed  lo  the  Provisional  Army  of  Vir- 
ginia, prior  to  its  transfer  to  the  Confederate  States,  in  answer 
^o  your  resohuion  of  the  15th  instant. 
Respectfully; 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


[Doc.  No.  24.] 


PROVISIONAL  ARMY. 


e 

-1 

Name. 

Rank. 

la 

1861. 

GENERAL    OFFICERS. 

May      4 
15 

Joseph  E.  Jolinston 

Brigadier  General. 
Do.           do. 

T.  T.  Fauntlerov 

COLONELS   OF    ARTILLERY, 

9 

John  B.  Magruder 

Colonel. 

LIEUTENANT    COLONELS    OF    ARTILLERY. 

9 

John  C.  Pemberton 

Lieutenant  Colonel. 

9 

Samuel  Jones 

Do.              do. 

MAJORS    OF    ARTILLERY. 

None. 

CAPTAINS    OF    ARTILLERY, 

9 

John  S.  Saunders 

Captain. 

COLONELS. 

21 

William  B.  Blair 

Colonel. 

June    7 

Henry  Hill 

Do. 

LIEUTENANT    COLONELS. 

May    17 

Andrew  Jackson 

Lieutenant  Colonel. 

MAJORS. 

17 

Asa  Wall,  (Surgeon) 

Rank,  Major. 
Do. 

17 

J.  P.  Smith,  (Surgeon) 

CAPTAINS. 

7 

John  M.  MauTT 

Captain. 
Do. 

7 

Samuel  H.  Ldcher 

7 

Fleming  Gardner 

Do. 

17 

James  Y.  Jones 

Do. 

17 

D.  B.  Bridgford 

Do. 

17 

W.  C.  Williams 

Do. 

17 

Bradfut*  Warwick 

Do. 

17 

S.  Crutchfield 

Do. 

17 

M.  B.  Hardin 

Do. 

17 

J.  P.  Thorn 

Do. 

2'2 

James  Kellum,  (Assistaot  Surgeon) 

Rank,  Captain. 

[Doc.  No.  24.] 


PROVISIONAL  ARMY— Continued. 


1861. 

May  24 
24 
24 
24 
24 
24 
24 
25 
25 
25 
25 
30 
30 
31 
31 


CAPTAINS — Continued. 

E.  T.  D.  Myers,  (Engineer's  duty) 

Conwav  R.  Howard,  (Engineer's  duty) 

T.  M.  K.  Talcott,  (Engineer's  duty).  ." 

B.  B.  Douglass 

E.  Cunningham,  (Engineer's  duty) , 

M.  McDonald,  (Engineer'.^  duty) 

Scott  Ship 

K.  II.  Burks 

Benjamin  W.  Leigh , 

F.  VV.  Smith 

Isaac  Green 

James  W.  Smith , 

Henry  M.  Mathews,  (Engineer's  duty) , 

W.  H.  Taylor,  (Assistant  Adjutant  General).  . 
Clifton  H.  Smith,  (Assistant  Adjutant  General) 

FIRST    LIEUTENANTS. 

J.  G.  Paxton 

P.  P.  Slaughter 

James  Ker 

W.  B.  Tabb 

W.  E.  Harrison 

R.  McCausland 

T.  K.  Thornton 

J.  A.  Turner 

J.  B.  Harvie 

0  C.  Henderson 

L.  J.  Smiih 

G.  B.  Horner 

B.  H.Todd 

C.  M.  Barton , 

Walter  H.  Taylor 

W.  E.  Cutshaw , 

R.  P.  Carson , 

L.  W.  Reid 

A.  J.  Grigsby 

W.  E.  Fife 

C.  L.  Lumsden 

J.  H.  Morri.son 

E.  S.  Hutter,  Jr 

George  A.  Thornton 

Joseph  H.  Chenowitn 

George  C.  Dickinson , 

William  II.  Morgan , 

T.  T.  Faunlleroy 

R.  L.  Maury 


Captain. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 


Fir 


St  Lieutenant; 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do, 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do, 


[Doc.  No.  24.] 


PROVISIONAL  ARMY— Continued. 


FIRST  LIEUTENANTS — Continued. 

H.  W.  Cox 

R.  P.  Koland 

J.  B.  Cocke 

Giles  B.  Cooke 

E.  Vr.  Lee 

Sergeant  F.  Mann 

C.  A.  Davidson 

J.  W.  Cringan 

A.  R.  II.  Ranson 

Charles  Richardson 

Louis  Zimnier 

R.  B.  Marve 

John  C.  Maynard 

Edmund  Goode 

G.  G.  Otcv 

J.  Waddeil 

W.  R.  Whitehead 

Opie  Staite 

H.  Tudor  Tucker 

J.  B.  Brockenbrough 

Henry  Hunter 

Lewis  Randolph 

T.  M.  Senims 

George  H.  Smith 

SECOND    LIECTENANTS. 

J.  H.  Carpenter 

A.  S.  Scott 

W.  L.  Wingfield 

J.  T.  Tosh 

N.  C.  Hammond 

G.  Buck 

J.  Hamhrick 

W.  Overtoil 

W.  H.  Lipscomb 

W.  D.  Howard 

George  Thornton 

W.  M.  Palmer 

G.  D.  Parker 

R   M.  Mavo 

W.  R.  .Tones 

R.  H.  Logan 

W.  V.  N"eime\  er 

W.  H.  Browne 

Jamcfl  Dearing 

H.  D.  Twyman 

20 


First  Lieutenant. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 


Second  Lieutenant. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 


[Doc.  No.  24.] 


PROVISIONAL  ARMY— Continued. 


II 

Name. 

Rank. 

1861. 
Mav      3 

SECOND    LIEUTENANTS Coiltinuod. 

R.  S.  Kinne V 

Second  Lieutenants 

3 

W.  Ii;.  Gibson 

Do. 

3 

James  B.  Wasliington 

Do. 

3 

William  G.  Waller 

Do. 

3 

Thomas  P.  Turner 

Do. 

3 

Frank  Masi 

Do. 

3 

H.  W.  Hunter 

Do. 

3 

R.  L.  Williams 

Do. 

3 

W.  E.  Taylor     

Do. 

3 

W.  E.  Park 

Do. 

3 

E.  M.  Morrison 

Do. 

3 

W.  H.  Brav 

Do. 

3 

W.  A.  Smith 

Do. 

3 

W.  Gregory 

Do. 

3 

C.  G.  Lawson 

Do. 

3 

R.  S.  Majett 

Do. 

3 

T.  R.  Dunn 

Do. 

3 

J.  Hcth 

Do. 

3 

J.  W.  Uouck 

Do. 

3 

T.  G.  Hart 

Do. 

3 

B.  Coltrane 

Do. 

3 

J.  A.  Douglass 

Do. 

3 

H.  M.  Mathews 

Do. 

3 

Robert  J.  McEldowney 

Do. 

3 

Hugh  II.  Lee 

Do. 

3 

Augustus  Bailey 

Do. 

3 

Alexander  (ireever 

Do. 

3 

William  P.  Thompson 

Do. 

8 

Jolin  Logan 

Do. 

3 

Lawrence  Chase 

Do. 

3 

J.  W.  McCarty 

Do. 

3 

J.  M.  Pavne 

Do. 

8 

Frank  Carter 

Do. 

3 

Philip  L.  Burwell 

Do. 

3 

R.  E.  Allen 

Do. 

3 

E.  B.  Montague 

Do. 

7 

J.  M.  Otey 

Do. 

7 

W.  P.  Otev 

Do. 

7 

William  D.  Porter,  Jr 

Do. 

7 

Henry  C.  Allen 

Do. 

7 

John  L.  Morjian 

Do. 

7 

T.  S.  Jones 

Do. 

7 

T.  E.  Jaikson 

Do, 

7 

Wood  Bouldin,  Jr 

Do. 

7 

J.  R.  Tvler 

Do. 

7 

Thomas  Rowland 

Do. 

7 

John  G.  Gittings 

Dov. 

[Doc.  No.  24.] 


PROVISIOXAL  ARMY— Continued. 


SECOND  LIEUTENANTS — Continued. 

W.  E.  Kcmblo 

John  Condroy  Taylor 

.John  Taliaferro 

L.  H.  Diinlap 

J.  R.  Crump 

W.  N.  Boiling 

R.  L.  Poorc 

\V.  G.  Turpin 

H.  T.  Douglass 

B.  L.  Blackford 

A.  S.  Pendleton 

J.  H.  Gilmer,  Jr 

.1.  H.  Sharp 

.James  Breckenridge 

.J.  R.  Bryan 

William  Bernard  Meredith 

John  Preston,  Jr 

Charles  Davis 

Lewis  Burwell 

W.J.  Packard 

H.  C.  Fairfax 

M.  L.  Powell 

C.  J.  P.  Cresap 

Edward  Willoughby  Anderson 

Robert  Pegram  Walker 

.J.  Bo«wortli 

F.  M.  Huddoth 

M.  C.  Selden 

William  B.  Myers,  (Engineer's  duty). . . 
Frank  S.  Robertson 

B.  W.  Haymond 

A.  S.  Norment 

Julien  Fairfax 

Charles  E.  Yeatman 

E.  A.  Semple 

John  W.  Carrington 

James  W.  Pegram 

R.  T.  Daniel,  Jr 

J.  M.  JeftVies,  Jr , 

P.  N.  Page 

T.  Jefferson  Page 

Robert  C.  Atkinson 

.T.  H.  Chamberlavne 

J.  H.  Ham '. 

J.  T.  Xeff 

Thomas  Massenburg 

0.  H.  BetU 


Second  Liulenant. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 


10 


[Doc.  No.  24.] 


PROVISIONAL  ARMY— Continued. 


B 

11 

Name. 

Rank. 

1861. 

May    21 
25 

SECOND  LiECTENANTS — Continued. 

Wm.  F.  Blackistone,  (Maryland  brigade) 

Edwin  Barbour 

Second  Lieutenant. 
Do. 

25 

C.  W.  McDonald 

Do. 

25 

Thomas  B.  Hamilton 

Do. 

80 

William  M.  Hopkins 

Do. 

80 

E.  C.  Robinson,  Jr 

Do. 

30 
SO 

R.  B.  Davis 

Powhatan  R.  Clark 

Do. 
Do. 

30 

Thomas  S.  B.  Tucker 

Do. 

30 

William  V.  Coleman 

Do. 

30 

Herbert  Brvan 

Do 

30 

J.  T.  Cowan 

Do. 

30 

Gurden  C.  Ashton 

Do. 

9 

COLONELS    OF    CAVALRY. 

R.  H.  Chilton 

Colonel. 

14 

R.  S.  Garnett,  (Adjutant  General) 

Do. 

9 

LIEUTENANT    COLONELS    OF    CAVALRY. 

R.  S.  Ewell 

Lieutenant  Colonel. 

9 

CAPTAINS    OF    CAVALRY. 

Lunsford  Lomax 

Captain. 
Colonel. 

9 

COLONELS    OF    LIGHT    INFANTRY. 

Daniel  Ru<je;les 

9 

G.  H.  Tcrrett 

Do. 

9 

LIEUTENANT    COLONELS    OF    LIGHT    INFANTRY. 

Thomas  Jordan 

Liuetenant  Colonel, 

9 

Joseph  Selden 

Do. 

9 

Henry  Heth 

Do. 

9 

Samuel  S.  Anderson 

Do. 

9 
9 

George  W.  Lay 

Algernon  S.  Tavlor 

Do. 
Do. 

10 

J.  E.  B.  Stuart 

Do. 

10 

Robert  Johnston 

Do. 

9 

MAJORS    OF    INFANTRY. 

W.  E.  Jones 

Major, 

[Doc.  No.  24.] 


11 


PROVISIONAL  ARMY— Continued. 


a 

O    ai 

p 

Naroo. 

Rank. 

1861. 

CAPTAINS    OF     INFANTRY. 

May     9 
10 

J.  B.  S.  Alexander 

Captain. 
Do. 

W.  F.  Lee 

FIRST    LIEUTENANTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

10 

John  Cargill  Pegram 

Firi't  Lieutenant. 

11 

R.  W.  Hooe 

Do. 

11 

W.  Hays  Otey 

Do. 

SECOND     LIEUTENANTS    OF    INFANTRY. 

11 

J.  W.  Daniel 

Second  Lieutenant. 

[DOC.  NO.  XXV.] 


A  COMJTONICATION* 


FROM    THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


TRANSMITTING 


TWO  ORDINANCES 


AND 


ACCOMPANYING  PAPERS. 


[Doc.  No.  25.] 

Executive  Department, 
June  17,  1861. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention: 

The  Attorney  General,  lias  at  my  instance,  drawn  two  ordi- 
nances of  much  importance,  and  to  which  I  invite  your  early 
attention,  as  well  as  to  the  papers  accompanying  them.  1  re- 
spectfully urge  immediate  action,  and  earnestly  hope  they  will 
meet  your  approval. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


521 


[Doc.  No.  25.] 


MiDDLEBURG,  LoUDOUN  CoUNTY,  ") 

June  11,  1861.         ^ 

To  His  Excellency  Governor  Letcher: 

Dear  Sir  :  I  write  to  you,  as  the  presiding  judge  of  this 
county,  because  I  feci  that  it  is  my  duty  to  do  so. 

At  an  election  Iield  some  days  ago  to  fill  a  vacancy  on  our 
county  court  bench,  in  the  Gorman  settlement  on  the  north 
border,  a  black  repubUcan,  I  understand,  was  elected.  His  name 
is  Downey,  I  behove,  though  I  do  not  know  the  man.  My  in- 
formation is  derived  from  gentlemen  at  court,  from  which  place 
(Leesburg)  I  have  just  returned  to-night. 

I  hope  his  commission  lias  not  been  issued,  and  that  you  will 
susjiend  it  until  you  clmi  be  fully  infornuHl  on  the  subject ;  for  I 
would  feel  disgraced  to  sit  on  the  bench  with  such  a  M)an. 

We  have,  as  you  no  doubt  are  aware,  a  large  population  on 
the  northwest  frontier  of  our  county,  and  reaching  into  the  cen- 
tre, where  the  free-soil  feeling  is  predominant;  still,  we  have 
had.  the  good  fortune  never  to  have  had  a  justice  elected  who 
was  unsound  on  tlie  vital  question.  If  he  was,  Ave  did  not 
know  it,  and  great  harmony  has  prevailed  among  us;  and  at  our 
last  court  we  levied  fifty  thousand  dollars  for  the  military  service 
by  a  unanimous  vote. 

1  know  what  is  the  duty  of  the  Executive  in  regard  to  issuing 
commissions  for  persons  elected,  but  there  is  no  time  prescribed 
in  which  it  shall  be  done  ;  and  I  beg  leave  most  respectfully  to 
suggpst  that  in  this  case  it  be  delayed  till  a  convenient  season. 

This  man  Downey  is  a  Pennsylvanian  by  birth,  and  I  am 
satisfied,  from  the  information  given  by  gentlemen  of  character, 
that  he  is  a  Lincoln  man  in  his  principles. 

Very  respectfully,  your  obedient  servant, 

ASA  ROGERS. 


[Doc.  No.  25.] 


Richmond,  June  17,  1861. 

Dear  Sir, — At  your  request,  I  have  drawn  an  ordinance  to 
coniprehend  such  cases  as  are  presented  in  the  letter  referred  to 
me. 

I  am,  yours,  respectfully, 

J.  R.  TUCKER. 
Govornor  of  Virginia. 


[DOC.  NO.  XXVI.] 


REPORT 


FROM  THE 


COMMITTEE  ON  RAIL  ROAD  CONNECTIONS 


WITH 


ACCO:\IP ANTING  DOCmVIENTS. 


[Doc.  Xo.  2Q] 


REPORT. 


The  undersigned,  to  Avhom  lins  been  referred  the  resolution  of 
the  Convention  adopted  the  I5th  instant,  directing  an  inquiry  as 
to  whether  rail  road  connections  should  be  made  through  Rich- 
mond and  Petersburg,  have  had  the  matter  under  consideration, 
and  beg  leave  to  report,  that  after  consultation  with  Major  General 
Lee,  and  also  the  Quarteruiastsr  General  of  the  Confederate 
States,  they  have  no  hesitation  in  saying  that  they  consider  all 
the  connections  spoken  of  in  said  resfilution  as  not  only  expe- 
dient but  very  important  for  military  purposes. 

As  the  resolution  under  which  they  act  directs  them  particu- 
larly to  inquire  whether  connections  should  be  made  between 
the  Richmond,  Fredericksburg  and  Potomac,  and  Richmond 
and  Petersburg  rail  roads  through  Richmond,  and  between  the 
Richmond  and  Petersburs",  and  Petersburg  and  VVeldon  Rail 
Roads,  through  or  near  Pefersburg;  and  on  what  terms  said  con- 
nections can  be  made,  they  have  directed  tiieir  attention  at 
Ibis  time  particularly  to  those  connections,  and  by  their  request 
have  received  a  conununication  from  P.  V.  Daniel,  Esq.,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Richmond,  Fredericksburg  and  Potomac  Rail  Road 
Company,  on  belialf  of  his  Com^)any,  and  the  Richmond  and 
Petersburg,  and  Petersburg  and  VVeldon  Rail  Road  Companies, 
proposing  terms  for  the  connection  of  the  said  rail  roads,  which 
communication  accompanies  this  report,  and  is  marked  (A.) 

They  consider  that  the  terms  proposed  by  these  companies  are 
fair,  liberal  and  advantageous  for  the  State,  and  in  view  of  the 
importance  of  these  connections  for  military  purposes  they  re- 
conunend  that  the  Convention  direct  them  to  be  made  on  the 
terms  proposed  without  farther  delay. 

The  communication  of  Major  General  Lee,  on  the  subject,  is 
herewith  communicated,  marked  (B.) 

The  committee  have  not  had,  as  yet,  sufficient  time  to  ascer- 
tain the  best  mode  or  the  probable  cost  of  connecting  the  other 
rail  roads  terminating  in  Richmond,  and  they,  therefore,  ask 
leave  to  make  a  fnther  report  on  that  subject. 

They  report  herewith  an  ordinance  to  carry  out  their  views 
with  regard  to  the  connections  proposed  above. 

EDMUND  T.  MORRIS, 

On  behalf  nf  the  Committee. 
22 


[Doc.  No.  26.] 


RICHMOND;  Fredericksburg  and  Potomac  R.  R,  Co.,") 

June  18,  18G1.  5 

Edmund  T.  Morris,  Esq., 

C/iairnian  of  Co7ivention  Committee- 
Dear  Sir, — Incompliance  wiili  yonrrequest,  I  beg  leave  to  fur- 
nish you  with  tiie  inf(>rniation  you  desire  in  relation  to  the  connec- 
tion ot'this  rail  road  with  those  south  of  this  city,  and  the  terms 
on  which  this  company  and  those  owning  the  rail  roads  between 
this  city  and  VVeldon  would  rent  or  purchase  those  connections, 
with  the  unrestricted  use  of  them,  if  constructed  by  the  Gov- 
ernment. Having  some  six  weeks  since  been  applied  to  by  the 
Quartermaster's  Department  of  the  Virginia  army  to  furnish  in- 
formation as  to  the  practicability  and  cost  of  these  connections, 
and  the  terms  on  which  the  rail  road  companies  concerned  would 
rent  or  purchase  them  from  the  State,  I  promptly  conferred  with 
officers  of  those  companies  on  the  subject,  and  also  had  surveys 
and  estimates  made  by  experienced  and  skilful  engineers,  and  as 
the  result  of  those  conferences,  surveys  and  estimates,  1  beg  leave 
to  state : 

1st.  That  these  connections  can  be  constructed  at  a  cost  which 
can  l)e  approximately  estimated  not  to  exceed  seventy-five  thou- 
sand dollars. 

2d.  That,  if  the  State  will  defray  the  first  cost  of  constructing 
the  work,  under  the  direction  and  control  of  the  companies  con- 
cerned, they  will,  through  this  company,  obligate  themselves  to 
the  State,  whenever,  for  a  period  of  not  less  than  five  years,  the 
State  shall  seciu'e  to  those  companies  the  complete  use  of  those 
connections  for  all  their  purposes  of  passenger  and  freight  trans- 
portation, to  pay  as  rent  for  that  use  to  the  State  six  per  cent,  per 
annum  of  the  cost  of  constructing  those  connections;  will  keep 
the  same  in  good  repair,  and  will  not  charge  the  State  or  the 
Confederate  States  with  any  tolls  or  fares  for  transporting  troops 
or  munitions  of  war  over  the  same. 

3d.  That,  whenever  the  State  shall  convey  to  those  companies 
the  ownership  of  tliose  connections,  with  the  right  to  the  com- 
plete use  of  them  as  aforesaid,  the  companies  will  obligate  them- 
selves to  purchase  them  at  the  original  cost. 

It  is  proper  for  me  to  add,  that  the  control,  by  the  rail  road 
companies  concerned,  of  the  mode  and  expense  of  constructing 
these  connections,  is  a  necessary  condition  to  the  rcnljng  or  pur- 
chase of  these  connections  by  the  companies,  and  that,  if  the 


6  [Doc.  No.  26.] 

means  of  constructing  this  Avork  shall  bo  furnished  by  the  Gov- 
ernment promptly  as  required,  these  companies  would  undertake 
its  construction  under  the  direction  of  skilful  and  experienced 
engineers,  selected  by  them,  possessing  peculiar  advaiuages  and 
opportunities  of  knowing  and  using  the  materials  and  modes  of 
construction  best  adapted  to  the  important  purposes  for  wliich 
it  is  to  be  constructed. 

The  employment  of  any  other  agency  woulA  very  probably 
result  in  the  construction  of  this  work  at  a  much  greater  ex- 
pense, and  in  such  a  mode  as  to  make  it  of  less,  if  of  any,  value 
to  the  companies  concerned,  and  perhaps  preclude  altogether 
their  either  renting  or  purchasing  it. 

And  as  the  rail  road  companies,  who  are  to  perform  the  trans- 
portation over  these  conneclious,  and  to  pay  for  them  in  rent  a 
lixed  per  ceiitage  on  their  cost,  and  in  purchase  of  them  that 
cost  itself,  are  thus  equally  interested  in  having  the  work  done 
in  the  best  and  most  available  manner,  and  at  the  least  practica- 
ble expense,  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  Government  would 
secure  the  best  and  most  economical  construction  of  this  work 
by  employing  in  it  the  agency  of  those  companies^  and  of  the 
engineers  to  be  employed  by  them, 

Yery  respectfully,  your  obedient  servant, 

P.  V.  DANIEL,  .Jr., 
President  R.  F.  and  P.  R.  R.  Co., 
In  behalf  of  the  three  comjmnies  concerned^ 


[Doc.  No.  26.] 


33. 

Head  Quarters,  Richmond,  June  18, 1861. 

Edmund  T.  Morris, 

Chairman  of  Special  Committee  of  Convention  of  Va.: 

Sir, — 111  reply  to  your  letter  of  the  18th  inst.,  I  have  the  honor 
to  state  that  I  consider  it  very  important  to  the  military  opera- 
tions within  Virginia  that  projier  and  easy  connections  of  the 
several  rail  roads  passing  through  or  terminating  in  Richmond 
and  I'etershurg  should  l)e  made  as  promptly  as  possible. 

The  want  of  these  connections  has  seriously  retarded  the  ope- 
rations so  far,  and  they  may  become  more  important.  All  the 
guns,  ammunition,  &c.,  from  Norf  )ll\,  on  reaching  Petersburg, 
have  either  to  be  transported  across  the  Appou)attox  to  the  Rich- 
mond and  [Petersburg  Rail  Road,  or  forwarded  to  the  Richmond 
and  Danville  road,  and  to  be  again  transferred  at  Richmond. 
The  transportation  of  troops  has  also  been  delayed  in  the  same 
manner. 

I  have  previously  urged  the  connection  of  the  roads  within 
the  cities  of  Richhiond  and  Petersburg,  and  hope  it  may  now  be 
established. 

■    1  am,  sir. 

Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

R.  E.  LEE, 
General  Commanding, 


«** 


[  DOC.  NO.  xxmj 


REPORT 


OF  THE 


COMMITTEE  OF  ELECTIONS 


UPON  THE  RESOLUTION 


OF 


MR.  WYSOR 


IN 


REGARD  TO  ABSENT  MEMBERS. 


[Boc.  No.  27.] 


REPORT. 


The  Committee  on  Elections,  to  whom  was  referred  the  reso- 
hition  in  the  following  words,  to  wit : 

"  Resolved,  That  the  Committee  of  Elections  inquire  and 
make  report  to  this  Convention  of  the  numher  and  names  of 
members  whose  seats  are  vacant,  the  cause  or  causes  of  such 
vacancies,  and  of  the  action  which  it  may  he  proper  for  this 
body  to  take  in  relation  to  said  vacancies  and  to  the  several 
absentees.  The  said  connnittee  is  authorized  to  send  for  per- 
sons and  papers,  and  to  report  by  resolution  or  otherwise,"  beg 
leave  to  report  that  they  entered  upon  the  performance  of  the 
duties  imposed  upon  them,  and  considered  the  evidence;  adduced 
before  them,  and  come  to  the  f  illovving  conclusions  and  resolu- 
tions, to  wit: 

First,  as  to  the  members  of  the  Convention  who  arc  absent  : 
Caleb  Boggess,  George  \V.  Brent,  Sherrard  Clemens,. John  A. 
Campbell,  John  Echols,  Samuel  Garland,  Samuel  L.  Graham, 
Robert  E.  Grant,  Algernon  S.  Gray,  James  W.  iloge,  Robert  C. 
Kent,  James  Lawson,  James  Marshall,  Thomas  Maslin,  Spicer 
Patrick,  Edmund  Pendletim,  Biirwell  Spurlock,  Franklin  P. 
Turner,  and  Benjamin  Wilson.  These  members  have  not  as  yet 
attended  the  Convention  during  its  present  session.  Some  of 
them  are  in  the  field  serving  the  State,  some  detained  on  account 
of  sickness,  and  others  absent  from  causes  unknown  to  the 
committee.  The  conmiittce  have  not  been  able  to  ascertain  that 
any  of  these  members  arc  ab.sent  from  their  scats  by  reason  of 
disloyalty  to  Virginia  or  sympathy  with  her  enemy. 

Secondly  :  Resolutions  of  Committee  as  to  certain  other  absent 
members. 

It  appearing  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  committee  that  William 
G.  Brown,  James  Rurley,.Tohn  vS.  Burdett,  John  S.  Carlile,  Mar- 
shall M.  Dent,  Fphraim  B.  Hall,  Chester  D.  Hubbard,  John  J.  * 
Jackson,  James  ('.  McGrew,  George  McC.  Porter,  Chapujan  J. 
Slnart,  Campbell  Tarr,  and  Waitman  T.  Willey,  elected  mem- 
bers of  this  Convention,  have  been  engaged  in  conspiracy 
against  the  integrity  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Virginia,  and  are 
now  engaged  in  aiding  and  abetting  the  open  enemies  of  Vir- 
ginia:  'l^hcrofbre. 

Resolved,  Tliat  the  said  William  G.   Brown,  James  Burley, 
John  S.  Burdett,  John  S.  Carlile,  Marshall  M.  Dent,  Ephraim 
23 


4  [Doc.  No.  27.] 

B.  Hall,  Chester  U.  Hubbard,  John  J.  Jackson,  James  C. 
McGrew,  George  McC.  Porter,  Chapman  J.  Stuart,  Campbell 
Tarr,  and  Waitman  T.  Willoy,  be,  and  are  hereby,  expelled 
from  this  Convention,  and  that  their  seats  as  members  of  the 
Convention  be,  and  are  hereby,  dechn-ed  vacant  ;  and,  it  appear- 
ing that  certain  of  the  parties  last  above  named  are  seeking  to 
obtain  pay  for  that  period  of  time  elapsing  between  the  dates 
when  the  said  persons  left  the  Convention  and  the  day  when  the 
Convention  adjonrned  — 

Rpsolvpcl,  That  the  Clerk  of  the  Convention  be,  and  is  hereby, 
directed  not  to  grant  certificates  for  said  pay. 

The  committee  further  report  that  James  H.  Conch,  of  the 
county  of  Marion,  has  resigned  his  seat,  and  an  election  to  fill 
the  vacancy  been  had,  but  official  information  has  not  been 
received  as  to  who  has  been  elected.  George  W.  Snnnners,*one 
o{  the  delegates  from  Kanawha,  also  resigned,  and  an  election 
has  been  had  to  fill  the  vacancy,  but  official  infiirmation  has  not 
been  received  as  to  who  is  ele'^ted.  John  Q,.  Marr,  one  of  the 
delegates  from  the  county  of  Fauquier,  was  killed  in  battle  at 
Fairfax  Court-House,  and  his  seat  is  vacant.  All  of  which  is 
respectfully  submitted. 

A.  F.  RAYMOND, 
Chairman  of  Committee  of  Elections, 


[DOC.  NO.  xxvin.] 


SECOND  REPORT 


FROM   TBE 


co]M]viitth:e 


ON 


RAIL  ROAD  COI^NECTIOI^S. 


[Doc.  No.  28.] 


REPORT. 


The  Committee  on  Rail  Road  Connections,  to  whom  was  re- 
eomiuitted  their  report  of  the  19ih  of  June,  have  had  the  sub- 
ject-matter again  under  consideration;  and  having  ascertained 
from  the  proper  authorities  of  the  Government  of  tlie  Confederate 
States  that  that  Government  did  not  consider  that  it  had  the 
power  or  autliority  to  make  the  proposed  connections,  and  there- 
fore decHned  to  undertake  to  do  so,  in  view  of  the  importance  of 
the  work,  in  their  opinion,  in  the  present  emergency,  have 
determined  again  to  report  the  ordinance  previously  proposed  by 
them,  with  certain  amendments,  which,  they  tiust,  will  remove 
all  previous  dilficulties,  and  which  they  therefore  earnestly  re- 
commend for  the  adoption  of  the  Convention. 

The  committee  have  had  under  further  consideration  the 
proposition  to  connect  the  other  rail  roads  terminating  in  the  city 
of  Richmond;  and,  althoiigh  they  requested  the  attendance  be- 
fore them  of  the  proper  officers  of  all  said  companies,  all  save 
one  foiled  to  attend;  and,  not  being  able  to  procure  any  definite 
information  as  to  the  best  mode  or  probable  cost  of  making  this 
connection,  they  are  unable  to  make  any  farther  report  on  that 
subject  at  this  time. 

Tiie  committee,  according  to  order,  have  also  had  under  con- 
sideration a  resolution  submitted  to  them  to  inquire  what  action, 
if  any,  was  necessary  and  proper  on  the  part  of  the  Convention 
to  authorize  tlie  construction  of  rail  roads  in  this  State  for  n)ili- 
tary  purposes  by  the  Confederate  authorities,  and  report  that 
they  con.'^ider  it  inexpedient  and  improper  on  the  part  of  the 
Convention  to  grant  any  such  authority,  especially  as  under 
the  emergency  which  has  arisen,  and  the  acknowledged 
necessity  for  the  connections  proposed  in  a  previous  part  of  this 
report,  the  Confederate  authorities  disclaim  any  power  to  make 
any  such  constructions,  even  if  such  privilege  were  granted  tliem. 
The  committee  tlicrcfore  ask  to  be  discharged  from  the  further 
consideration  of  that  subject. 

EDMUND  T.  MORRIS, 
On  behalf  of  the  Committee. 


I 


[DOC.  m,  XXIX.] 


COMMUNICATION 


FROM  THE 


AUDITOR  OF  PUBLIC  ACCOUNTS, 


TRANSMITTING 


A  TABULAR  STATEMENT 


SHOWING 


THE  FEDERAL  POPULATION 


OF 


THIS    COMMONWEALTH 


UNDER  THE  CENSUS  OF  1860. 


[Doc.  No.  29.]  3 


Auditor's  OfficJs,  June  24,  l86l. 

Sir  :  In  compliance  witli  a  resolution  adopted  by  the  Conven- 

vention  on  the  22d  instant,  I   herewith  transmit  ''  A  tabular 

statement  showing  the  federal  population  of  the  counties,  cities, 

and  boroughs  of  this  Connnonwealth  under  the  census  of  1860." 

Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

J.  M.  BENNETT, 

Auditor  of  Public  Accounts. 
John  Janney,  Esq., 

Presidetit  of  the  Convetitioti. 


24 


[  Doc.  No.  29.  ] 


A    TABLE 

Showing  the  population  of  the   State  of  Virgi7iia  in  the  year 
1800,  on  whicJi  representation  is  based  in  the   Congress  of  the 
Confederate  States,  ascertained  by  computing  the  entire  free 
population  and  adding  thereto  three-fifths  of  all  Slaves. 


Names  of  counties. 


Population. 


Alleghany 

Amelia 

Albemarle 

Amherst 

Alexandria 

Accomac 

Appomattox . . 

Augusta 

Barbour 

Bath 

Braxton 

Bedford 

Berkeley 

Brooke 

Boone 

Botetourt 

Buchanan 

Buckingham 

Brunswick 

Cabell 

Clay 

Craig 

Calhoun 

Campbell 

Chanes  City 

Clarke 

Charlotte 

Caroline 

Carroll 

Chesterfield j 

Culppper 

Cumberland i 

Dinwiddic ! 

Doddridge 

Essex I 

Klizabeth  City I 

Fairfax ] 

Fauquier 

Fayette ' 

Franklin 

Frederick 

Floyd ; 

Fluvanna 


6,3S9 

7,687 

21.0.59 

11,578 

12.098 

16.784 

7,049 

25,.504 

8,920 

3.298 

4.9.50 

21,002 

11.865 

5.487 

4,777 

10,408 

2,781 

11,688 

1J.I53 

7,898 

1,779 

3. .^85 

2.492 

21  ,.561 

4.431 

5,796 

10,775 

14  197 

7.9i;8 

15,675 

9,o94 

7,279 

25.088 

5,189 

7,791 

4,832 

10  .5b9 

17.522 

5.889 

17. .5.58 

15.643 

8,046 

8^55 


[Doc.  No.   29.] 


TABLE— Continued. 


Names  of  counties. 


Grayson 

Greenbrier 

Greene 

Greensville 

Giles 

Gilmer 

Gloucester 

Goochland 

Halifax 

Hampshire 

Hancock 

Hanover 

Hardy 

Harrison 

Henrico 

Henry 

Highland 

Lsleof  Wight..., 

.Tackson 

James  City 

.tefferson 

Kanawha 

King  George. . . . 
King  &  Queen. . 
I^ing  William. . . 

Lancaster. 

Lee 

Levv'is 

Logan 

Loudoun 

Louisa 

Lunenburg 

Madison 

Marion 

^-arsliall 

Mason 

Matthews 

Mecklenburg. . . . 

Mercer 

Middlesex 

McDowell 

Monongalia 

^VJonroe 

Montgomery. . . . 

Morgan 

Najisemond 

Nelson 

New  Kent 

Nicholas 

Norfolk  County. 
Northampton. . . , 
Northumberland. 

Nottoway 

Orange 

Qiiio.. 


[Doc.  No.  29.] 


TABLE— Continued. 


Names  of  counties. 


Population. 


Page 

Patrick 

Pleasunis 

Peiidlctoi) 

Preston 

Pittsylvania. . . . 
Pocahontas. . . . 

Pdwlifitan 

Prince  Edward . 
Prince  (ieorere. 
Princess  Anne. , 
Prince  VViJIiani. 

Pulaski 

Putnam 

Raleigh 

llandolph 

Rappaluumock. 

Riclinuuid 

Ritcliic 

Roane 

Roanoke 

Rock  1)1  idge. . . . 
Rockin!;liani.  . . 

Russell 

Stafford 

Shenandoah. . . . 

Scott 

Spotsylvania. . . 

Southampton 

Smyth 

Surry 

Sussex 

Taylor 

Tazewell 

Tucker 

Tyler 

T'pshur 

\Varren 

AVaru  ick 

AVashintjton  .  . .  . 

Wayne 

Westmoreland. . 

Wetzel 

Webster 

Wirt 

Wise 

AVood 

Wyoming 

Wythe.. 

York 


7,769 

2,9.39 

6,n69 

].3.;286 

at;.. '168 
;},8.^>8 

8.!)1)8 
6,412 
6,440 
7,(i2:? 
4,180 
e.Oc.'t 
3.:i4.'i 
4,91 1; 

7,442 
.''>,870 
(i,8.31 
.''),. 3.54 
6.992 
].5,6.")6 
22,4.')4 
9,740 
7,229 

r.ijm 

11,876 

12,960 

]  0,7.52 

8, .538 

5.127 

7,621 

7,41.5 

9,440 

1.418 

6..507 

7,208 

5,812 

1,332 

15,875 

6.689 

6.800 

6.699 

1  ..5.54 

3.741 

4,4s2 

10.976 

2.M.35 

11.441 

4,179 


Total  federal  population  for  the  State  in  1860. 


1,400,063 


[DOC.  NO.  XXX.] 


REPORT 


FROM 


THE  COMMITTEE 


TO 


KEAPPOKTION  REPRESENTATION 


IN 


THE  CONGRESS  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES. 


[Doc.  No.  30.] 


REPORT. 


Richmond,  June  20,  1861. 

The  commitlee  appointed  to  reapportion  the  representation  of 
the  counties,  cities,  and  boroughs,  of  this  Commonwealth,  in 
the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  under  the  census  of  1860, 
beg  leave  to  report  that  they  have  had  the  same  under  considera- 
tion and  beg  leave  to  present  the  annexed  report. 

SAMUEL  G.  STAPLES,  Chairman. 


25 


[Doc.  No.  30.]  5 
FEDERAL  POPULATION. 

OF 

Virginia  according  to  the  Census  of  IS60. 

Total  population 1,400,164 

Rates  ot'  representation 87,506 

First  District. 

Middlesex 3,414 

Acconiac 16,783 

Northampton 6,283 

Elizabeth  City 4,832 

War\vi("lc 1 ,352 

James  City 4,764 

Gloucester 8,662 

Mathews 5,888 

Lancaster 4.003 

Westmoreland 6,800 

Richmond 5,870 

Essex 7,791 

York 4,179 

King  &  QuciMi 7,875 

JNortliumbciland 6,154 

94,650 

Second  District. 

Norfolk  ccnmty  and  city 32,556 

J'rincess  Anne 6,440 

Nansemoiid 11,500 

Isle  of  Wight 8,549 

Southampton ^.  .  .  10,752 

Sussex 7,621 

Surry ' .  .  .  5, 1 27 

Greensville 4,710 

87 ,255 


[Doc.  No.  30.] 


Third  District. 


Henrico  and  city  of  Richmond. 

Charles  City ■ 

New  Kent 

Hanover 


53,600 
4,431 
4,534 

13,431 

75;996 


Fourth  District. 

Dinwiddie  and  Petersburg 25, OSS 

Chesterfield 15,675 

Powhatan 6,229 

Amelia 7,687 

Nottaway 6,248 

Cumberland 7,299 

Buckingham 11,688 

Prince  George 6,412 

86,326 

Fifth  District. 

Prince  Edward 8,908 

Brunswick 11,153 

Mecklenburg 15,r^8 

Lunenburg 9,062 

Charlotte 10,775 

Halifax 20,563 

Appomattox , 7,049 

82,638 


Sixth  District. 

Pittsylvania 26,368 

Patrick 8,531 

Henry 10,097 

Franklin 17,558 

Bedford 20,997 

Carroll 7,908 

91,459 


[Doc.  No.  30.] 


Seventh  Distinct. 

Albemarle 21 ,050 

Campbell  and  Lynchburg 21,561 

Amherst II  ,578 

Nelson 10,519 

Fluvanna 8,355 

Goochland 8,200 

Greene 4,231 

85,503 


Eiglith  District. 

Spotsylvania 

Louisa   

Orange 

Madison 

Culpeper   

Caroline 

King;  George 

Stafford 

King  William 


12 

12 

8 
7 
9 
14 
5 
7 
G 


,900 
,622 
,262 
.096 
,394 
,197 
,105 
,229 
,319 


83,184 


Ninth  District. 

Fauquier 17,522 

Rappahannork 7,442 

Prinre  William 7,622 

Fairfax 10,589 

Alexandria 12,098 

Loudoun 19,572 

Jefferson 12,991 

87,836 


Tenth  District. 

Frederick 15,643 

Berkeley 11,865 

Morgan 3.693 

Hampshire 13,431 

Clarke 6,796 


8  [Doc.  No.  30.] 

Warren 

Shenandoah 

Page 

Hardy 


5,815 

13,596 

7,769 

9,434 

87,039 


Eleventh  District. 

Augusta 

Rockingham 

Rockl)ridge 

Pendleton 

Highland 

Baih 

Pocahontas 

Alleghany 


Twelfth  District. 

Botetourt 

Roanoke  

Montgomory 

Fl  .yd 

Pulaski 

Giles 

<^''-^'ig 

Mercer.- 

Monroe 

Greenbrier 

Raleigli 

Fayette    


25 
22 
15 

6 
4 
3 
3 
6 


,503 
,454 
,656 

,069 
,159 

,298 
,858 
,369 


87,366 


]0 
6 
9 
8 
4 
6 
3 
6 
10 
11 


,408 
,992 
,729 
,046 
,780 
,571 
,385 
,676 
.311 
,600 
,345 
,889 


87,732 


Thirteenth  District. 

Wythe 11,441 

4Sniyth 8,538 

Grayson 8,034 

Washington 15,875 

Ccott 11,876 

Lee 10,702 

Wise .    4;482 


[Doc.  No.  30.] 


Buchanan . 

McDowell, 

n\ize\vell . 

Bland.... 

lUissell... 

Wyoming, 


Fourteenth  District. 

Kanawha 

Logan 

Boone 

Wayne 

Cabell 

Putnam 

Mason 

.f  ackson 

Roane 

Clay 

Nicholas 

Braxton 

Wirt 


2,781 
1 ,5.35 
9,440 

9,740 
2,835 

97,279 


5,275 
4,879 
4.777 
6,689 
7,898 
6,069 
9,0.31 
8,284 
5,354 
1,779 
4,564 
4,950 
3,741 


84,290 


Fifteenth  District. 

Lewis 

Wood 

Pleasants 

Tyler 

Ritchie 

Doddridge 

Upshur 

Randolph 

Webster 

Tucker 

Jiarbour 

Harrison 

Taylor 

Gilmer 

Calhoun 


7 
10 
2 
6 
6 
5 
7 
4 

i 

8 
13 
7 
3 
2 


907 
,976 
,939 
,507 
,831 
,189 
.208 
,916 

,'418 
,920 
,557 
,415 
.739 
,4^8 


90,020 


10  [Doc.  No.  30.] 


Sixteenth  District. 

Ohio 22,382 

Hancock 4,444 

Brooke 5 ,487 

iMarshall 12,9S9 

"Wetzel 6,009 

Marion 12,()96 

Monongalia 13,()U8 

Pieston 13,286 

90,991 


[DOC.  NO.  XXXL] 


REPORT 


FROM 


THE  COMMITTEE  ON  THE  SUBJECT 


OF 


THE  STORES,  MACHINERY,  AND  PROPERTY, 


CAPTURED 


AT  HARPER'S  EERRY. 


26 


REPORT. 


The  cominittee  to  whom  wns  referrpd  the  inquiry,  "  wha*^ 
measures  ought  to  he  taken  iu  referen<"e  to  the  stores,  uinrhiiipry, 
and  property,  raptured  at  Har|)er's  Ferry  l)y  the  Virginia  forces," 
bi'g  leave  to  make  the  followiiii;  report  : 

The  property  raptured  at  Harper's  Ferrv,  consisted  prinri- 
paliy  of  uiaelnnery  for  the  nianiifacture  of  ritles  and  uutskets — a 
poriinn  of  which  is  coinaion  to  both  arms.  Tiiis  machinery  lias 
been  hrought  to  Richmond  ;  and,  in  the  transportation,  some 
was  lost,  some  injured,  and  some  i)roken;  not  suili^ient,  iiow- 
ever,  to  materially  affect  its  completeness  and  value.  The  Exe- 
cutive of  the  State,  by  the  advice  of  tlie  Advisory  Council,  has 
consented  to  send  to  the  State  of  Nnrth  Carolina  that  part  of  the 
maciiinery  intended  for  the  manufacture  of  rifles;  and  about 
one-third  of  it  has  been  removed  to  Fayetteville.  where  there  are 
buiiilings  suiial)le  for  its  accommodation,  and  motive  power 
capable  of  driving  it  f>r  inmiediate  use  and  to  its  full  capacity. 
Tlie  public  necessity,  and  immediate  demand  fur  arms,  justified 
an}''  course  likely  to  clfe;^!  the  desired  object. 

All  the  musket  machinery  is  in  the  armory  building  in  Rich- 
mond, but  not  put  up  for  use,  and  cannot  be  until  the  builJings 
are  iu  a  more  f  irvvard  state  of  completion. 

Prr  information  on  the  suliject  of  the  Armory  building,  its 
capacity  to  receive  the  machinery,  tV:c.,  the  connnittee  refer  to 
the  conununication  of  Colonel  Burton,  herewith  filetl,  maiked 
(A.) 

By  the  terms  of  the  convention  entered  into  between  Virjjiuia 
and  the  Hon.  A.  H.  Stephens,  Commis.sioner  of  the  Confederate 
Stales,  on  the  24ili  of  April,  Ih'OI,  in  the  city  of  Richmond,  it 
was  stipul.ite.l  that,  after  A^irginia  shoiild  become  a  member  of 
the  C(Uifeileracy  under  the  permanent  Constitution  of  the  Con- 
f('.!erate  States,  she  sliould  "  tiiin  over  to  said  Con((!derate  States 
all  the  public  property,  naval  stores,  and  munitions  of  war,tfcc., 
she  may  then  be  in  posstission  of,  ac(juiretl  from  the  Uiiitf'd 
States,  oji.  t/ic  same  terms,  and  in  like  manner,  as  the  other  States 
of  said  Confederacy  jiave  done  in  like  cases." 

The  committee  regard  this  as  an  obligation  to  transfer  the 
Harper's  Ferry  machinery  and  material  ;  and  the  only  dilii^uliy 
occuried  from  the  want  of  information  as  to  the  terms  on  whicfi 
oilier  States  had  turned  over  properly  of  like  character.     The 


4  [Doc.  No.  31.] 

only  information  the  committee  has  been  able,  to  procure  on  that 
snbjcci  is  contained  in  a  letter  from  the  President  of  the  Con- 
federate States,  herewith  reported,  marked  (B.)  From  this  letter 
it  appears  that  no  nniformity  in  the  manner  or  terms  of  the  trans- 
fer has  been  pnrsned — each  State  making  such  stipulations  as  to 
it  seemed  proper. 

The  committee  are  miam'mous  that  the  Harper's  Ferry  ma- 
chinery and  mate:ial  shmdd  he  turned  over  to  the  Conff^derate 
Government,  not  oidy  because  of  our  stipulation  to  do  so,  but 
because  tliat  government  <  an  employ  it  more  expeditiimsly  and 
valuably,  for  the  common  d«!fen''e,  than  Virginia  can  at  present 
d<>;  yet  iliey  deem  it  proper  that  Virgmia  should  stipulate  in  the 
tr  uisfer  tliat  the  /Jir/z/^////^^'///  location  of  the  Armnry  should  be 
within  the  limits  oi  ilic  State.  At  what  point,  will  be  a  question 
for  the  ConfcdtMalc  Government  hereafier  to  decide. 

The  connmttee,  therefore,  reconunend  the  adoption  of  the  fol- 
lowing res'lutions: 

1.  Hesolved,  That  the  Governor  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Virginia  turn  over  and  transfer  to  the  Government  of  ihe  Con- 
federate Slates,  flir  use  during  the  war,  all  the  marhint^ry,  arms, 
and  stores  captm'ed  by  the  \'irginia  forces  at  Harper's  Ferry, 
now  in  possession  of  the  State,  reserving  the  right  of  property 
in  tlie  same. 

2.  Rcsolccrl,  That,  in  the  said  transfer,  it  shall  be  stipulated 
that  the  permanent  location  of  the  said  machinery  shall  be  within 
the  limits  of  tliis  Connnonwealth;  that  the  Government  of  the 
Con!"ederate  Stales  shall  pay  any  demand  which  may  hereafter 
arise,  from  any  (|uarler,on  account  of  ibe  seizure  and  captuie  of 
the  same;  also  the  expense  of  removal  from  Harper's  Ferry  to 
Richmond. 

3.  Resolved,  That  the  GDvernor  of  Virginia  be  authorized  to 
allow  the  Confederate  G)vernment,  on  such  terms  as  he  may 
deem  just  and  reasonable,  the  Armory  buildings  at  Kichmond 
for  operating  said  machinery. 

.L\C.  R.  CHAMBLISS,  Chairman 


} 


[Doc.  No.  31.] 

(A.) 

State  Armory, 
Richmond,  June  19,  ISGl. 

To  Jno  R.  Chambltss,  Esa., 

The  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Mnchinen/,  iScc, 

from  Harper^ s  Ferry: 

Sir:  Tn  obedionce  to  yowv  verbal  instructions  of  the  18th  inst., 
I  beg  to  submit  the  following  report  on  the  subject  of  the  eiec- 
ti"n  and  use  in  the  Virginia  State;  Armory,  of  the  machinery, 
ifcc,  removed  liere  from  the  armories  at  Harper's  Ferry. 

With  reference  to  that  portion  of  the  mactiinery,  which,  from 
f<irce  of  circnmst;mces  incidental  to  the  late  movement  of  the 
Virginia  f  trees  iVom  iSrper's  Ferry,  it  has  not  been  possible  to 
remove  to  Hichmond,  if  is  proper  that  I  shoidd  define  it  as  near- 
ly as  possible  for  your  informilion.  Chi  the  occasion  of  my  late 
(>ffi"ial  visit  to  Harper's  Ferry,  with  a  view  to  the  removal  of 
everything  of  importance  to  the  maniifarture  of  arms,  I  fmnd  sev- 
eral tilt-hammers,  essential  to  tlie  fnging  of  parts  of  the  rifle 
muskei;  drop-hammer  for  do.;  several  entire  main  lines  of  shaft- 
ing; essential  parts  of  machines  whif'h  had  be^n  already  in  p  u't 
forwarded;  titgether  with  some  useful  and  valuable  material <, 
still  remaining  in  the  sliops  and  storehouse  at  the  musket  fac- 
tory, i  arranged  for  the  immediate  removal  of  tliese  to  Rich- 
mind,  in  order  to  coa)plete  the  set  of  machinerv  for  the  manii- 
faciure  of  the  rifle  muskei;  but  I  am  inf'rmed  that,  in  conse- 
quence of  the  evaluation  of  t!ie  f)lace  liy  our  troi^ps,  but  little,  if 
any,  of  the  machinery  I  refer  to  has  been  secured;  and,  as  tlie 
buildings  in  which  it  remained  have  been  burned,  I  have  every 
reason  to  suppose  tliat  it  has  been  entin-ly  destroyed.  'I'hese 
machines  (some  eight  or  ten  in  nmnber)  are  therefore  warning 
t'>  complete  tlie  set  of  nm>ket  machinery,  and  will  have  to  be 
supplied  from  some  other  source.  Several  tilt-hannners,  forg:'s, 
Ai-c.,  essential  to  the  manulactnre  of  the  rifle,  have  also  not  be(Mi 
removefl  frorrj  the  shops  of  the  rifle  works;  hut,  as  I  learn  that 
these  shops  were  not  destroyed,  I  presume  these  machines  still 
remain  at  Harper's  Ferry.  It  is  a  subject  of  much  doubt,  how- 
ever, whether  or  not  they  can  now  be  removed  to  Kichmond. 
There  still  remains  a  large  number  of  rifle  stocks  in  the  shops 
of  thn  rifle  factory,  but  the  remainder  of  (he  nmsket  stocks  (some 
4;">,00(>j  have  been  burnt.  About  40,001)  of  the  latter  had  been 
]ireviously  removed  in  safety  to  Richmond.  It  will  he  seen,  there- 
fore, that  certain  machines  essential  to  the  mannfacluie  of  both 
the  rifle  and  the  rifle  musket  have  not  been  removed,  and  aro 
stfll  wanting  to  complete  the  two  sets  of  machinery. 


6  [Doc.  No.  31.] 

The  syj=tem  of  mannfactiiro  pursiind  at  Harper's  Forry  at  the 
time  of  its  falling  into  the.  hands  of  the  anihitrities  of  Virginia 
was  such  as  nenressitaiod  the  ein|)loyn":ent  nf  a  considerahle 
nnniher  o(  machines  in  the  production  of  certain  parts  of  arms 
common  to  hoth  rifle  and  rifle  n)uskct.  The  eiiiire  locks  for 
both  ch\ssps  of  arms  were  |)roduced  at  the  musket  works,  and  a 
portion  rf  the  machine  stocking  for  the  rifle  was  also  performed 
on  machines  at  the  musket  works.  Those  machines,  togeiher 
witli  other  faciliiies  essential  to  the  pro<lnction  of  the  rifle  innsket, 
I  have  instructions  to  retain  for  the  Virginia  State  armory,  and 
so  far  I  have  acied  in  accordan'.'e  with  my  instrm-tions  in  con- 
nection with  the  transfer  of  the  rifle  machinery  to  Fayeiteville 
Arsenal. 

In  view,  thernforo,  of  the  facts  herein  referred  to,  the  question 
natnr;dly  suggf^sts  itself  whether  or  not  a  is  expedient  or  proper 
to  make  any  divisi<ni  of  the  machinery  iVwii  Harper's  Kerry,  see- 
ing that  neither  set  can  be  made  quite  complete,  partir^ularly  that 
for  the  rifle  niannfacture,  which  would  lack  the  entire  set  of  ma- 
chinery necessary  for  the  production  of  locks,  and  one  or  two 
very  im[)ortaiit  machines  in  connection  with  the  stock,  together 
with  the  means  of  forging  some  parts  of  the  mounting.  In  ad- 
dition to  those  machines  herein  relerred  to,  which  it  has  been 
found  impossible  to  remove  from  the  rifle  works  at  Har  er's 
Ferry,  it  is  essential  also  that  I  should  meniion  the  faet  of  the* 
machinery  generally  being  mn?h  broken  in  its  removal  and  tran- 
sit to  Richmond,  inasmnch  as  a  large  jiortion  of  il  was  forwan.led 
without  being  hoxed  or  pa'M<ed.  Some  maf'hines  are  so  very 
ninch  broken  as  to  render  it  exceedingly  doubilul  whether  they 
are  worth  the  expense  of  repairing. 

These  machines  must  be  replaced  and  made  good  from  some 
source;  and,  if  all  the  rifle  machinery  is  to  he  sent  out  of  the 
State,  or  separated  from  the  w  hole,  the  State  must  incur  the  ex- 
pense of  construf^inu  new  machines,  which  might,  to  a  grcmt  ex- 
tent, be  avoided  if  the  separation  did  not  occur,  to  say  nothing  of 
the  r/('/(ii/  that  would  m^ces^arily  result.  I  am,  therefore,  com- 
pelled to  favorably  consider  the  expediency  of  the  State  of  Vir- 
ginia retaining  all  the  machinery  from  Harper'.s  Ferry  for  the 
Richn)ond  Armory,  with  a  view  to  the  early  completion  of  the 
pet  of  machinery  essential  to  the  manufacture  of  tin*  r//Ze-///?/5/:e/, 
by  drawing  upon  the  rifle  machinery  for  su'di  machines,  or  parts 
of  ma' bines,  as  may  he  ne<'essary  to  replace  those  missing  or 
broken  pertaining  t<i  the  rifle-nmsket,  and  wliich  will  have  the 
effect  of  enabling  ibis  arm  to  he  turned  out  much  sooner  in  Rich- 
mond than  would  otherwise  he  the  case.  In  the  meantime  st^ps 
can  he  taken,  if  desirable,  to  replace  the  machines  thus  borrowed 
from  ihe  rifle,  so  that  eventually  the  manufacture  of  both  clas.ses 
of  arms  may  be  carried  on  in  this  Armory  to  much  better  ad- 


[Boc.  No.  31.]  1 

vantage  than  can  possibly  be  the  case  if  a  separation  is  made, 
particularly  in  view  of  the  fact  of  so  much  of  the  machinery 
iDeing  used  in  common  for  both.  This  leads  immediately  to 
the  consideration  of  the  question  of  }-no?}i  in  the  Rirhmond  Ar- 
nidry  for  the  acronimodntinn  of  all  the  macliiiiery  from  Harper's 
Ferry;  and  to  this  point  I  will  now  address  myself,  quoting  facts 
as  evidence  of  the  correctness  of  my  representations. 

The  best  comparison  I  can  make  with  reference  to  the  require- 
ments in  this  particular  is  with  the  Enfield  Ilitle  Factory  in  Eng- 
land, which  establishment  I  developed,  and  managed  during  a 
period  of  over  five  years,  up  to  October  last,  at  which  time  the 
production  of  arms  was  at  the  rate  of  one  hundred  thousand 
rifles  per  annum. 

I  find,  on  rclerencc  to  my  notes,  that  the  total  area  of  all  the 
sho|>s  of  that  establishment,  containing  machinery  and  other- 
wise essential  to  manularturing  purposes,  is  very  nearly  98,000 
square  feet.  This  amount  of  room  I  found  sufficient  to  accom- 
modate the  means  of  producifig  100,000  rifles  per  annum.  The 
total  area  of  the  shops  of  the  Richmond  Armory  will  be,  when 
the  present  building,  in  process  of  erertion,  is  completed,  very 
nearly  37,000  square  feet.  In  order  to  furnish  additional  accom- 
modation for  machinery  and  complete  the  quadraiigU'  of  Armory 
buildings,  I  propose  to  erect  a  two  story  bride  buildmg  at  the 
southwest  angle,  now  ocrupied  by  some  old  barrack  buildings, 
which  will  add  about  13,000  square  leet  of  floor  room.  In  ad- 
dition to  this,  I  propose  to  occupy  tlie  sit(;  of  the  old  flour  mill 
at  the  back  of  the  Armory,  and  erect  thereon  a  building  100  liy 
4'J  feet,  in  which  to  place  the  machinery  for  rolhng  barrels,  *fcc., 
making  use  of  the  water  privilege  already  existing  at  this  p"int. 
It  will  be  necessary  to  erect  three  additional  waier-wheels  in  or- 
der to  supply  the  amount  of  motive  power  required;  but  the  ca- 
nal will  not  require  to  be  t.<pped  at  any  new  point,  as  the  water 
will  be  used  a  second,  and  in  the  case  of  the  barrel  rolling  mill, 
a  third  time.  The  total  area  of  tlie  Armory  shops,  with  the  pro- 
posed additions,  n  ith  be  about  54,000  square  feet,  which,  when 
compared  with  the  nquirenienfs  of  the  Enfield  Factory,  will  at 
on<e  be  seen  to  be  quiie  ample  for  the  acconunodation  of  r///  the 
Harper's  Ferry  mai^hinery,  which  lias  heretofore  produced  not 
over  Mi,000  to  i8,0tJ0  arms  of  both  kinds  per  annum,  or  about 
one-fifth  of  the  pniduct  of  the  Enfield  Factory.  As  I  have 
stated,  in  a  firmer  report  on  this  subject,  tiie  expense  of  erecting 
the  proposed  additional  buildings,  etc.,  will  be  more  than  met 
by  the  saving  of  Ihnds  resultmg  from  the  abrogation  of  the  con- 
tract with  Messrs.  Joseph  R.  Anderson  «S^  Co  ,  for  marbiuery, 
which  wi'l  not  now  be  wanted.  1  may,  with  propriety,  here 
observe,  that  sontf  of  tlie  machines  commenced  by  jM<'Ssrs.  Jos. 
1{.  Anderson  *Jt  Co.,  on  their  Armory  contract,  are  of  the  clas.s 


8  [Doc.  No.  31.] 

required  now,  in  consequence  of  the  failure  to  remove  from  Har- 
per's Ferry  the  machines  of  the  same  description,  and  it  will  be 
well  for  the  State  to  come  to  some  undorsiandiiig  with  Messrs. 
J.  R.  A.  &-  Co.,  so  that  the  machines  ihcy  have  in  progress  may 
be  rendered  availahlo. 

Another  question  of  much  imj)ortance  to  the  Uif  hmond  Ar- 
mory is  (inein  relation  to  the  workmen  lately  employed  at  Har- 
per's Ferry.  I  have  been  counting  tiixm  supplying  this  armory 
in  this  essential  particular  in  part,  at  least,  from  the  workmen  at 
that  place;  but  in  this  1  have  been  greatly  disapp'^inted,  in  con- 
sequence of  nearly  the  whole  of  them  followin:^  the  machinery 
transferred  to  Fayctteville,  so  that  I  have  had  oilers  of  the  ser- 
vices of  hut  a  very  few  of  them,  and  tho.se  of  inforior  abilities. 
The  result  is  that  my  hands  are  comparatively  lied  fir  tlu;  want 
of  suital  Ic  workmen,  jS  they  cannot  be  obtained  at  ihe  present 
time  from  any  other  source.  New  workman  can  be  eduf^ated  to 
the  business,  but  at  the  cost  of  a  considerable  expenditure  of 
valuable  time.  The  argument  cbielly  advanced  by  tlie  work- 
men fmm  Harjicr's  Ferry,  in  justification  of  their  desire  to  pass 
by  Richmond,  is  that  the  exjienses  of  living  is  so  high  here. 
This  is,  to  a  certain  extiMit,  acknowledged ;  but  such  fair  and 
reasonable  advance  in  their  rates  of  wages  as  would  have  met  the 
case  would  have  beini  conceded  freely,  I  am  sure,  and  1  should 
have  recommended  it  strongly. 

But  I  fear  this  is  not  the  only  and  chief  cause  inllucncing  them 
in  their  determination.  The  transfer  of  the  fuachinery  to  Fay- 
ctteville has  created  a  demand  in  that  (punter  (or  the  services  of 
these  men,  and  I  do  n(»t  doubt  but  that  they  are  only  accepting 
the  better  (dl'er  of  our  competitors  for  their  s"rvices.  This  wotdd 
not  have  been  the  case  had  Virginia  retained  all  the  machinery 
and  supplied  her  own  wants  iirst.  As  it  is,  very  great  embar- 
rassments will  result  in  consequence  of  these  workmen  not  being 
now  available  lor  the  Richmond  Armory  as  contemplated. 

Uesjtectlidly  subuiitiing  the  foregoing  remarks  to  yourself,and 
to  the  honorable  commillee  over  whom  you  preside,  and  expres- 
sing the  hoj)e  that  ycju  will  be  induced  therel)y  to  agree  with  me 
in  the  suggestions  1  make,  with  the  sole  view  of  promoting  the 
welfare  and  best  interests  of  the  State. 
1  have  the  honor  to  be,  sir, 

Your  most  obedient  servant, 

JAMES  H.  BURTON, 

Lt.  Vol.  of  Ordinance. 

1  beg  to  add,  that,  on  investigation,  1  find  that  whowl one  third 
of  the  rille  maehinerv  has  already  been  Ibrwarded  to  Fayctte- 
ville. 

Respectfully,  etc.,  JAMES  H.  BURTON, 

Lt.  Ool.  of  Ordinance. 


[Doc.  No.  31.J 


(B.) 

Richmond,  June  24,  1861. 

Hon.  John  R.  Ciiambliss, 

Chairman,  Sfc. 

Sir, — I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  tlie  receipt  of  your 
communication  accompanied  by  a  resohition  of  inquiry,  adopted 
by  the  committee  of  the  Convention  of  the  State  of  Virginia, 
"  whether,  prior  to  the  24lh  day  of  April,  any  of  the  Confede- 
rate States  had  transferred  to  the  Confederate  Government  the 
public  property  captured  by  them  from  the  late  United  States, 
and  upon  what  terms ;  also  whether  any  such  transfers  have 
been  made  since  the  said  date,  and  upon  what  terms;"  to  all  of 
f^hich  I  have  to  reply  that,  on  the  12th  February,  1861,  the 
Congress  of  the  Confederated  States  of  America  assumed  charge 
of  the  questions  pending  between  the  several  States  of  the  Con- 
federacy and  the  Government  of  the  United  States,  relating  to 
the  occupation  of  forts,  arsenals,  navy-yards,  and  other  public 
establishments,  and  directed  that  act  to  be  communicated  to  the 
several  States;  and  again,  on  the  15th  March,  1861,  the  Con- 
gress recommended  the  respective  States  to  cede  the  forts,  arse- 
nals, dock-yards,  and  other  public  establishments  within  their 
respective  limits,  to  the  Confederate  States;  and,  in  case  of  such 
cession,  authorized  and  empowered  the  President  to  take  charge 
of  the  said  property.  It  was  also  provided  by  act  of  28th  hVb- 
ruary,  1861,  that  the  President  be  authorized  and  directed  to 
assume  control  of  all  military  operations  between  the  Confede- 
rate States,  or  any  of  them,  and  powers  foreign  to  them;  and  he 
was  authorized  to  receive  from  the  several  States  the  arms  and 
munitions  of  war  acquired  from  the  United  States  and  then  in 
the  forts,  arsenals,  and  na\T-yards  of  said  States,  and  all  other 
anus  and  munitions  which  they  might  desire  to  turn  over  and 
make  chargeable  to  the  Confederate  (Tovernmcnt. 

In  response  thereto,  the   State  of  (Georgia  did,  on  the  20th 

March,  1861,  bjr  an  ordinance  of  her  Convention,  authorized 

Cfinfcderate  States  of  America  to  occupy,  use,  and  hold 

session  of  all  forts,  navy-yards,  arsenals,  custom-houses,  and 

or  public  sites,  with  their  apptirtenances,  within  the  limits  of 

1  Stitc  and  lately  in  ]X)ssession  of  the  United  States  of  Ameri 

and  to  repair,  rebuild,  and  <?ontro|  the  same  at  its  discretion, 

until  the  ordinance  should  be  repealed  by  a  convention  of  the 

poo].l('  of  said  State.     By  .anothrr  ordinance  of  same  date  and 


10  [Doc.  No.  31.] 

authority  tlic  control  of  all  niilitary  operations  in  said  State  hav- 
ing reference  to,  or  connected  with,  questions  between  said 
State  or  any  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  and  powers 
foreign  to  them,  was  translerred  to  the  Government  of  the  Con- 
federate States  of  America.  In  like  manner  was  transferred  the 
arms  and  munitions  of  war  ac(|uired  from  the  United  States  and 
then  remaining  in  the  forts  and  arsenals.  It  was  further  pro- 
vided that  the  Governor  be  authorized  to  transfer  to  the  Govern- 
ment of  the  Confederate  States  such  arms,  munitions  of  war, 
armed  vessels  or  steamers  belonging  to  said  State,  as  in  his 
judgment  might  be  expedient,  and  upon  such  terms  as  should 
be  agreed  upon.  The  (iovernmenl  of  the  Confederate  States 
was  to  become  accountable  for  all  such  arms  and  numitions  of 
war  as  should  be  transferred. 

On  t1ie  Sth  April,  IS61,  an  ordinance  was  adopted  by  Soutli 
Carolina  which,  in  terms  of  similar  import  to  that  of  the  Statr 
of  Georgia,  transferred  to  the  Government  of  the  Confederati- 
States  all  the  forts,  arsenals,  custom-houses,  navy-yards,  and 
other  public  sites  in  her  limits.  Though  not  on  file  in  the  Wa^ 
Office,  mj''  recollection  is  that  the  arms  and  munitions  of  war 
were  in  like  manner  transferred. 

On  the  20th  March,  ISOl,  the  State  of  Texas,  by  an  ordi- 
nance of  her  convention,  in  like  manner  assigned  to  the  Gov 
ernmentofthe  (Confederate  States  all  the  forts  and  navy-yards, 
arsenals  and  light- houses,  and  their  ajiiJurtenances  within  her 
limits. 

On  the  6th  May,  18G1,  the  State  of  Arkansas,  in  convention, 
by  ordinance,  instructed  and  commissioned  her  delegates  to  tli' 
Provisional  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  to  cede,  convey 
and  transfer  to  the  Government  of  tlje  Confederate  States  ol 
America  the  site,  buildings  and  ajipurtcnanccs  of  the  arscn:il 
at  Little  Rock,  and  the  site,  buildings  and  ap]iiirtenances  of  tin 
hospital  at  ?S'a])oloon,  with  several  conditions  annexed,  none  f>f 
which  probrdily  allect  the  use  of  the  property  by  the  (Confederate 
States.  This  ])ower  has  not  yet  been  exercised  by  the  delegates 
commissioned  as  above  stated. 

On  the  5th  June,  1861,  North  Carolina,  by  ordinance  of  tlic 
Stale  Convention,  ceded  to  the  Confederate  States  of  America 
jurisdiction  over  the  arsenal  at  Fayetteville,  except  that  civil  jiro 
cess  in  all  cases,  and  such  criminal  process  as  may  issue  under 
the  authority  of  the  State  of  North  (Airolina,  against  any  person 
or  persons  charged  with  crimes  committed  witliout  said  tract  ol 
land,  n)ay  be  executed  therein,  and  transferred  arsenals,  maga- 
zines, A:c.,  the  title  and  possession  of  the  lands  described,  to  the 
Government  of  the  (Confederate  States.  I  have  not  been  advised 
of  any  decision  by  the  convention  of  North  Carolina  in  relation 
to  the  transfer  of  arms  captured  from  the  United  States,  though 


[Doc.  No.  31.]  11 

it  is  known  that  a  part  of  those  arms  have  been  sent  to  Virginia, 
and  another  portion  issued  to  troops  who  have  been  mustered 
into  service,  and  arc  now  on  duty  Avithiii  the  hniits  of  tliis  State. 

In  tlie  removal  of  the  seat  of  government  to  tlie  city  of  Rich- 
mond, a  box,  containing  a  portion  of  the  files  of  the  War  Office, 
lias  accidentally  been  separated,  and  has  not  yet  arrived ;  from 
this  or  other  cause  have  not  been  able  to  ol)tain  record  evidence 
of  the  action  of  the  States  of  Alabama,  Florida,  Louisiana  and 
Mississippi,  and  therefore  state  the  action  of  their  several  State 
conventions  from  memory. 

In  regard  to  the  first  named,  tlie  course  adopted  was  similar 
to  that  of  Georgia.  In  Louisiana  the  Governor  was  authorized, 
as  his  judgment  should  direct,  to  transfer  to  the  (iovernment  of 
the  Confederate  States  the  arms  and  other  public  property  cap- 
tured from  the  United  States. 

The  forts  and  arsenal  at  Baton  Rouge  have  been  occupied  by 
the  Confederate  troops,  and  a  portion  of  the  arms  in  that  arsenal 
have  been  transferred. 

The  action  of  Florida  was  generally  the  same.  In  Missis- 
sippi no  arms  or  munitions  of  war  were  captured  from  the  Uni- 
ted States;  but  those  obtained  by  purchase  before  her  secession 
liave  been  used  to  supply  troops  furnished  on  recjuisition  for  the 
Confederate  service — say  ten  or  eleven  regiments  now  employed 
beyond  the  limits  of  the  State.  The  only  public  property  with- 
in the  limits  of  the  State,  and  recently  held  by  the  Government 
of  the  United  States,  was  an  unfinished  fort  on  Ship  Island  and 
two  marine  hospitals  on  the  Mississippi  river.  The  first  is  in 
the  possession  and  the  second  at  the  disposal  of  the  Government 
of  the  Confederate  States. 

I  am,  most  respectfully,  yours, 

JEFFERSON  DAVIS 


[Doc.  No.  32.] 


REPORT. 


The  Committee  on  Confederate  Relations,  to  whom  Avas  re- 
ferred the  message  of  the  Governor,  communicating  a  letter  from 
the  Secretary  of  War,  report: 

That  in  a  personal  interview  with  the  President  of  the  Con- 
federate States  the  President  expressed  himself  wilhng  to  receive 
into  the  confederate  service  for  twelve  months  any  regiment,  bat- 
talion or  company,  already  organized,  in  cases  where  such  or- 
ganizations already  formed  may  offer  only  for  twelve  months — 
applying  the  notice  contained  in  the  letter  of  the  »Secretary  of 
War,  communicated  to  this  Convention  by  the  Governor,  this 
day,  only  to  companies,  battalions,  or  regiments  hereafter  to  be 
organized. 


[DOC.  NO.  XXXII.] 


REPORT 


OP 


COMMITTEE  ON  CONFEDERATE  RELATIONS, 


PRESCRIBING  THE 


TIME  FOR  WHICH  VOLUNTEERS 


ARE  TO  BE 


MUSTERED  INTO  SERVICE. 


[DOC.  NO.  xxxm.]   1 


KEPORT 


OF    THE 


SELECT  COMMITTEE 


ON 


AMENDMENTS  TO  THE  CONSTITUTION 


OP 


vmaiNiA. 


[Doc.  No.  33.] 


REPORT. 


On  the  first  day  of  May,  1861,  the  Convention  adopted  the 
following  resolution: 

"Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  seven  members  be  appointed 
by  the  President  of  the  Convention,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to 
consider  and  report  to  the  Convention,  at  its  adjourned  session, 
such  amendments  of  the  Constitution  of  Virginia,  as  may  be  ne- 
cessary and  pro])er,  under  existing  circumstances." 

The  committee  appointed  under  the  foregoing  resolution,  have, 
according  to  order,  had  the  subject  referred  to  them  under  consi- 
deration, and  submit  the  following 

REPORT: 

The  comprehensive  terms  of  the  resolution  have  made  it  the 
duty  of  the  committee  to  subject  the  whole  Constitution  to  a 
careful  review,  for  the  purpose  of  suggesting  such  amendments, 
as,  in  their  judgment,  are  necessary  and  proper  under  existing 
circumstances.  Your  committee  were  deeply  impressed  with 
the  importance  and  delicacy  of  the  task  imposed  on  them,  and 
in  performing  it,  they  have  sought  to  be  guided  by  the  lights  of 
reason  and  experience  without  regard  to  their  own  preconceived 
opinions,  or  to  those  theories  which  have  heretofore  been  most 
popular. 

The  circumstances  by  which  we  are  now  surrounded,  render 
the  present  an  auspicious  time  for  correcting  radical  errors  in  our 
fundamental  law.  Recent  events  have  developed  the  weak 
points  in  our  political  system,  and  it  is,  perhaps,  a  fortunate  cir- 
cumstance that  the  members  of  the  present  Convention  have 
been  elected  untrammeled  by  pledges  or  committals  of  any  kind, 
to  their  respective  constituencies,  and  are  therefore  left  free  to 
approach  the  great  work  of  constitutional  reform,  with  that  dis- 
passionate calmness,  which  furnislies  the  best  assurance  of  deli- 
berate consideration  and  wise  conclusion. 

(Toverimients,  like  all  other  human  institutions,  must  be  modi- 
fied from  time  to  time,  with  a  view  to  adapt  them  to  the  new 
conditions   which  may  be  develoj^ed  by  the  progress  of  soci- 


4i^  [Doc.  'No.  33.] 

ety.  A  system  which  was  suited  to  tlie  condition  of  the  country 
half  a  century  ago,  may  be  unfitted  for  tlic  exigencies  of  the  pro- 
sent  time.  This  truth  has  been  signally  illustrated  in  tlie  his- 
tory of  the  government  of  the  lale  United  States.  As  framed 
and  administered  by  the  fathers  of  the  Republic,  it  was  admira- 
bly adapted  to  prosnote  the  happiness  and  prosperity  of  its  citi- 
zens, and  it  stood,  for  many  years,  the  wonder  and  admiration 
of  the  civilized  world.  But  in  the  onward  march  of  events,  it 
became  evident  that  its  provisions  were  liable  to  perversion, 
which  woidd  make  it  the  instrument  of  injustice.  Real  or  sup- 
posed antagonisms,  growing  out  of  diversities  of  climate,  pro- 
ductions, and  systems  of  labor  in  the  Northern  and  Southern  sec- 
lions  were  developed,  and  it  was  manifest  that  new  guarantees 
were  necessary  for  the  security  of  the  vital  interests,  and  domes- 
tic institutions  of  the  slaveholding  States.  Wise  and  patriotic 
statesmen  foreseeing  the  danger,  labored  to  obtain  such  amend- 
ments of  the  Constitution,  as  were  necessary,  to  adapt  it  to  the 
clianged  condition  of  the  country.  But  all  their  eliorts  having 
proved  abortive,  aud  a  dominant  sectional  majority  having  clear- 
ly indicated  its  purpose  to  trample  on  the  rights  of  the  Southern 
States,  no  alternative  was  left  to  them  but  to  seek  relief  from 
oppression,  by  separation. 

A  similar  necessity  of  conforming  our  institutions,  to  the 
growth  of  new  relations  and  interests,  which  are  constantly  ari- 
sing in  the  progress  of  society,  requires  that  changes  should  be 
made,  from  time  to  time,  in  our  State  Constitution.  As  Virginia 
is  now  about  to  commence  a  new  era  in  her  history,  it  is  impor- 
tant that  her  organic  law  should  be  so  framed  as  to  guard  her 
citizens,  effectually,  against  the  dangers  of  oppression  on  the  one 
hand,  and  anarchy  on  the  other. 

Governments  are  instituted  for  the  protection  of  the  rights  of 
persons  and  pro])crty;  and  any  system  must  be  radically  defec- 
tive, which  docs  not  give  ample  security  to  both.  The  great 
interests  of  every  conununity  may  be  classed  under  the  heads  of 
labor  and  capital,  and  it  is  essential  to  the  well-being  of  society, 
that  the  proper  equilibrium  should  be  established  between  these 
important  elements.  The  undue  predominance  of  either,  nnist, 
eventually,  prove  destructive  of  the  social  system.  Capital  be- 
longs to  the  few — labor  to  the  many.  In  those  systems  in  which 
capital  has  the  ascendency,  the  govermnent  must,  to  some 
extent,  partake  of  the  chnracler  of  an  oligarchy;  whilst  in  those 
in  which  labor  is  predominant,  the  tendency  is  to  what  Mr.  John 
Randolph  graphically  described  as  ''the  despotism  of  king  num- 
bers." It  is  the  ollice  of  enlightened  statesmanship  to  secure  to 
each  its  appropriate  inlltience,  but  to  give  the  absolute  control  to 
neither. 

Tlic  political  coudition  of  the  Northern  States  presents  a  stri- 


[Doc.  No.  33.]  ^ 

Icing  illustration  of  the  evils  incident  to  the  preponderance  of  the 
element  of  labor.  In  the  early  periods  of  their  history,  these 
evils  were  not  so  apparent  as  they  haA^e  since  become.  Their 
popnlation  was  sparse,  and  the  western  territories  afforded  a  con- 
venient outlet  for  their  restless  citizens;  labor  was  in  demand  at 
high  wages;  property  was  easily  acquired,  and  consequently  the 
line  of  demarkation  between  labor  and  capital  was  not  strictly 
drawn,  becanse  the  laborer  of  to-day  might  readily  become  the 
capitalist  oT  to-morrow.  But  within  the  last  twenty  years,  a 
marked  change  has  taken  place  in  the  North.  Popnlation  has 
become  dense,  and  ihc  safety-valve  afforded  by  emigration  to  the 
western  territories  has  been  greatly  obstructed.  Waives  have 
not  kept  pace  with  the  cost  of  subsistence,  and  the  difficulty  of 
acquiring  property  has  increased.  The  tendency  of  this  new 
condition  of  things  has  been,  to  divide  society  into  two  distinct 
classes,  and  to  array  tbe  one  against  the  other.  This  tendency  to 
a  conflict  between  labor  and  capital  has  already  manifested  itself 
in  many  firms,  comparatively  harmless,  it  is  true,  but  neverthe- 
less, clearly  indicative  of  a  spirit  of  licentiousness  which  nnist, 
in  the  end,  ripen  into  agrarianism.  It  may  be  seen  in  the  sys- 
tem of  free  schools,  by  which  the  children  of  the  poor  are  edu- 
cated at  the  expense  of  the  rich;  in  the  various  forms  of  exemp- 
tion, and  homestead  bills;  in  the  popidar  cry  of  ''  lands  for  the 
landless,"  and  'Miomes  for  the  homeless;"  in  Fourierism  and 
communism;  in  the  habitual  disregard  of  the  ordinances  of  reli- 
gion, and  of  the  institution  of  matrimony;  and  more  distinctly,  in 
the  form  of  abolitionism. 

The  radical  principle  of  abolitionism  is  agrarianism.  It  is  a 
war  on  property,  under  the  mask  of  simulated  philanthropy. 
The  property  selected  as  the  object  of  attack  is  held  exclusively 
in  the  Southern  States,  and  by  a  comparatively  small  class  of 
citizens.  Ilcncc  it  was  supposed  to  be  the  most  defenceless. 
But  this  is  only  the  beginning  of  the  contest.  It  is  a  war  on 
the  outposts  of  capital,  which  will  soon  be  followed  by  more  for- 
midable assaults  on  the  owners  of  land  and  other  species  of  pro- 
perty. History  teaches  that  when  '^numbers,"  unchecked  by 
suitable  constitutional  restrictions,  have  the  control,  agrarianism 
or  despotism  must  soon  follow. 

It  is  notorious,  that  already,  in  most  of  the  Northern  States 
capital  is  forced  to  obtain  temporary  security,  by  paying  tribute 
to  labor.  Money  constitutes  an  important  element  in  all  their 
elections.  Bribery  of  voters  is  a  matter  of  every  day  occurrence. 
Preparatory  to  every  political  contest,  large  sums  of  money  are 
subscribed  by  capitalists,  or  exacted  by  levies  on  office  holders, 
for  the  purpose  of  corrupting  the  voters;  and  the  journals  of  the 
Federal  Congress  disclose  the  disgraceful  fact,  that  Northern 
members  of  that  body  have  sold  their  official  votes  for  money. 


6  [Doc.  No.  33.] 

But  this  system  of  profligacy  and  corruption  can  only  serve  to 
postpone,  for  a  time,  tiie  <' irrepressible  contlict,"  which,  under 
their  forms  of  government,  must  eventually  ensue  between  labor 
and  capital.  The  masses  will  not  be  slow  to  learn  that  the  power 
is  in  their  hands,  and  they  will  not  scrnple  to  use  it  for  their  own 
advantage.  They  will  not  be  content  with  the  bribes  lavished 
by  unprincipled  partisans,  but,  under  the  lead  of  graceless  dema- 
gogues, they  will  act  on  the  assumption  that  "all  property  is 
robbery,"  and  that  "the  greatest  good  to  the  greatest  number" 
requires  the  division  of  property  among  the  down  trodden  mil- 
lions. 

The  agencies  by  which  these  mischievous  fallacies  may  be 
rendered  potential,  are,  universal  suffrage  and  the  election  of  all 
officers  by  the  direct  vote  of  the  people.  The  f  )rmcr  gives  a 
controlling  power  to  men  who  have  the  least  interest  in  the  com- 
uuinity,  and  the  latter  renders  that  power  effectual,  by  giving 
direction  to  the  legislation  and  administration  of  the  government. 

In  the  opinion  of  your  connnittee  no  system  of  govermuent 
can  afford  permanent  and  effectual  security  to  life,  liberty  and 
property,  which  rests  on  the  basis  of  unlimited  suffrage  and  the 
election  of  officers  of  every  department  of  the  government  by 
the  direct  vote  of  the  people.  The  tendency  of  such  a  system 
is,  to  demoralize  the  masses;  to  encourage  the  habit  of  office- 
seeking;  to  Ulster  corruption  at  the  polls,  and  to  place  unworthy 
and  incompetent  men  in  positions  of  trust  and  responsibility. 
These,  however,  are  the  vital  principles  of  the  social  organiza- 
tion of  the  North,  and,  as  before  stated,  their  bitter  fruits  are 
already  in  a  course  of  rapid  development. 

In  the  Southern  States  more  conservative  and  rational  princi- 
ples still  prevail.  This  is  due,  mainly,  to  the  institution  of 
slavery,  Avhich  constitutes  a  partial  restriction  on  the  right  of 
suffrage.  In  the  North,  men  of  every  class  and  condition  of 
life  are  entitled  to  vote.  In  the  South,  all  who  are  in  a  conditiou 
of  servitude  are  necessarily  excluded  from  the  exercise  of  politi- 
cal privileges,  and  the  ])ower  of  the  country  is  wielded  by  the 
more  intelligent  classes,  Avho  have  a  permanent  interest  in  the 
"well-being  of  society. 

Slavery  also  constitutes  an  effectual  barrier  against  that  ten- 
dency to  antagonism  between  labor  and  capital,  which  exists  in 
the  North.  There,  capital  is  the  casual  employer  of  labor,  and 
is  interested  in  diminishing  its  Avages.  Here,  capital  is  the 
owner  of  labor,  and,  naturally,  seeks  to  enhance  its  rewards. 

Virgima  is  now  in  the  midst  of  a  revolution,  the  results  of 
which  no  human  sagacity  can  accurately  foresee.  It  is  our  duty, 
however,  to  meet  the  crisis  with  all  the  prudence,  wisdom  and 
conservatism  that  we  can  command,  and  to  guard,  as  far  as  prac- 
tciablC;  against  every  probable  danger. 


[Doc.  No.  33.]  1 

It  seems  now  to  be  generally  conceded,  that  the  framers  of  the 
present  Constitntion,  made  too  wide  a  departure  from  the  con- 
servative principles  which  were  cherished  by  our  revolutionary 
fathers.  Smittcu  by  a  desire  to  follow  in  the  footsteps  of  North- 
ern politicians,  they  incorporated  into  our  organic  law  many  of 
the  i'atal  errors  which  overthrew  the  Federal  Government,  and 
must,  in  a  few  years,  lead  to  the  downfall  of  the  whdle  fabric  of 
Northern  society.  They  have  engrafted  on  our  Constitution 
those  JXorthern  ideas  of  unlimited  suffrage  and  universal  popular 
elections,  which,  as  has  been  already  shown, are  rapidiy  driving 
the  Northern  States  to  agrarianism. 

The  dissolution  of  our  political  connection  with  the  old  Union, 
has  etfccted  material  changes  in  the  relations  of  Virginia,  which 
should  be  maturely  considered  in  reviewing  her  fundamental 
law.  Under  the  old  system,  she  was  in  the  centre  of  the  Union. 
In  the  new  confederation,  she  will  be  one  of  the  border  States. 
How  far  this  fact  may  ailect  the  institution  of  slavery  within  her 
limits,  cannot  yet  be  determined.  But,  it  is  the  part  of  prudence 
to  guard  against  all  contingencies.  It  may  be  that  the  slave 
population  will  be  withdrawn,  to  some  extent,  from  the  Northern 
and  Western  portions  of  her  territory,  and  their  place  supplied 
by  immigrants  from  the  North,  to  whom  jt  Avould  not  be  safe  to 
confide  the  destinies  of  Virginia  by  enabling  them,  tin'ough  the 
elective  franchise,  to  choose  the  men  who  are  to  frame,  expound 
and  administer  her  laws. 

In  view  of  this  condition  of  affairs,  your  committee  regard  it 
as  vitally  important,  that  tlie  Constitution  of  Virginia  should  be 
so  amended  as  to  impose  wholesome  restrictions  on  the  right  of 
suffrage,  and  to  diminish  the  number  of  officers  to  be  elected  by 
the  direct  vote  of  the  people.  In  regard  to  the  qualification  of 
voters,  there  has  been,  from  the  foundation  of  the  republic, 
much  diversity  of  opinion.  While  all  concurred  in  the  idea 
that  the  voter  should  have  a  permanent  interest  in,  and  attach- 
ment to  the  community,  statesmen  have  differed  as  to  what  con- 
stituted the  best  evidence  of  that  interest  and  attachment. 

Under  the  Constitution  of  1770,  the  elective  francliise  was  re- 
stricted to  freeholders,  on  the  idea  that  those  who  owned  the 
comitry  should  govern  it. 

In  IS30,  it  was  extended  to  housekeepers  and  heads  of  fami- 
lies, who  had  paid  the  revenue  tax  with  which  they  had  been 
assessed  for  the  next  preceding  year. 

At  the  last  revisal  of  the  Constitution,  in  ISoO,  all  restrictions, 
except  as  to  citizenship  and  residence,  were  removed,  and  all 
white  males,  above  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  were  allowed 
to  vote  whether  they  had  been  assessed  with,  or  paid  any  tax, 
or  not. 

In  the  opinion  of  your  committee,  this  was  an  unfortunato 


8  [Doc.  No.  33.] 

change  in  the  Constitution.  It  has  introduced  a  large  class  of 
irresponsible  voters  who  have  but  little  interest  in  the  Common- 
wealth, and  who  do  not,  in  any  degree,  participate  in  the  bur- 
thens of  taxation,  which  may  be  imposed  by  representatives  of 
their  selection. 

Every  consideration  of  principle  and  expediency  requires  that 
this  error  should  now  be  corrected. 

Political  rights  and  duties  are  reciprocal.  Eveiy  citizen  is 
entitled  to  the  protection  of  his  government,  and  as  an  equiva- 
lent for  that  protectiiui,  he  is  bound  to  defend  i\\e  government. 
Protection  of  individual  rights  is  the  consideration  paid  for  the 
military  service  of  the  citizen.  But  it  is,  by  no  means  true, 
that  every  citizen  is  entitled  to  participate  in  the  administration 
of  llic  government.  Before  he  cv.n  have  a  just  claim  to  all  the 
rights  of  a  citizen,  he  must  show  that  he  has  performed  all  the 
duties  of  a  citizen.  It  is  not  enough  that  he  shall  have  per- 
formed military  service  in  defending  the  government.  That  is 
but  one  of  the  duties  of  a  citizen,  and  for  that,  he  is  amply  com- 
pensated by  the  protection  which  is  afforded  to  his  rights  of  per- 
son and  properly.  The  govermnent  must  he  supported  by  taxes 
as  w(ll  as  defended  by  the  ujilitnry  arm.  ]\Ioney  is  as  essential 
in  war  as  men.  Troops  must  be  armed,  e(|nip)ied,  clothed,  fed 
and  paid,  as  well  as  miirshalled  for  the  battle-field.  The  citizen 
who  fails  to  pay  his  share  of  the  cost  of  the  government  is  as 
much  in  default  as  his  neighbor,  who  shrinks  from  military 
service.  He  has  not  discharged  his  full  duty  to  his  country, 
and,  therefore,  has  no  just  ground  to  complain  if  he  is  not 
allowed  to  share  in  the  administration  of  its  govermnent. 

It  cannot  be  dcniwl  that  it  is  in  violation  of  one  of  the  great 
fundamental  princijjles  of  American  liberty  tliat  persons  who 
pay  no  taxes  should  be  allowed  to  exercise  tlie  elective  franchise. 
Our  fathers  maintained  that  taxation,  without  representation,  was 
tyranny.  But,  of  what  value  is  the  right  of  representation  if 
those  who  substantially  lay  the  taxes  pay  no  portion  of  them? 
If  irresponsible,  non-tax-paying  voters  select  the  Legislators  who 
lay  the  taxes,  it  is  obvious  that  the  result  must  hu  oppression. 
Under  the  representative  system,  the  security  which  the  people 
have  against  unjust  taxation  is,  in  the  fict,  tliat  they  can,  at 
pleasure,  withdraw  the  legislative  trust  from  the  hands  of  those 
who  abuse  it.  But  if  one  class  elects  the  representative  and 
anothor  bears  the  burthen  of  taxation,  this  security  becomes 
worthless. 

These  general  considerations  tend,  in  the  opinion  of  your 
committee,  to  show  that  the  present  Constitution  of  Virgim'a 
does  not  provide  the  necessary  safeguards  against  the  abuse  of 
power.  Under  it,  suflrage  is  almost  unlimit(;d,  and  much  the 
larger  number  of  the  ofiicers  of  governraentare  elective,  directly, 


[Doc.  No.  33.]  9 

by  the  people.  The  tendency  of  these  provisions  is,  to  the  most 
hateful  of  all  despotisms — the  despotism  of  an  unrestrained 
numerical  majority. 

If  the  lessons  of  history,  on  this  point,  needed  any  confirma- 
tion, it  can  bo  found  in  the  melancholy  spectacle  presented  by 
the  government  from  which  we  have  recently  withdrawn.  We 
see  the  President  of  the  United  States,  whose  government  is 
acknowledged  to  be  one  of  limited  powers,  backed  by  an  infu- 
riated and  fanatical  populace,  boldly  usurping  the  right  to  declare 
war;  to  raise  armies;  to  call  out  the  militia;  to  borrow  money; 
to  increase  the  navy;  to  invade  States;  to  blockade  ports;  to  sus- 
pend the  writ  of  habeas  corpus;  to  violate  the  freedom  of  speech 
and  of  the  press;  and,  in  a  word,  to  trample  on  every  principle 
of  constitutional  liberty;  and  instead  of  being  met  by  stern  re- 
buke and  merited  impeachment,  every  new  aggression  on  the 
Constitution  and  popular  right  is  hailed  with  acclamation  by 
those  who  recognize  in  him  the  chosen  minister  and  instrument 
of  ^'King  Numbers." 

Right  of  Suffrage. 

In  seeking  to  make  a  practical  application  of  the  general 
propositions  which  have  been  discussed,  your  committee  have 
encountered  many  difficulties.  A  partiality  has  been  expressed 
by  many  intelligent  citizens  for  a  return  to  the  old  freehold  sys- 
tem of  qualification  of  voters.  But,  to  say  nothing  of  the  im- 
practicability of  effecting  such  a  complete  revolution,  your  com- 
mittee are  persuaded  that  the  change  would  not  be  desirable  if 
it  were  attainable.  There  seems  to  be  no  good  reason  why  the 
owners  of  land  should  have  greater  privileges  than  the  holders 
of  any  other  species  of  property.  Every  property  qualification  is 
obnoxious  to  the  objection,  that  the  right  is  made  an  nicident  of 
the  property  and  not  of  the  person.  Your  committee,  therefore, 
have  declined  to  recommend  any  property  qualification,  but  pre- 
fer that  the  right  to  vote  should  be  made  dependent  on  the  per- 
formance of  public  duty.  They,  therefore,  advise  that  the  Con- 
stitution be  amended  so  as  to  authorize  every  free  white  male 
citizen  to  vote  who  shall  have  paid,  sixty  days  before  the  elec- 
tion, all  taxes,  State  and  Confederate,  which  may  have  been 
assessed  against  him  or  his  property,  for  the  next  preceding  year, 
and  also  all  the  levies,  county,  corporation  and  parish,  with 
which  he  is  justly  chargeable. 

This  liiuitation  on  the  right  as  it  now  exists,  is  in  accordance 
with  the  princijilcs  above  stated,  and  would,  in  the  judgment  of 
the  committee,  be  attended  with  the  most  beneficial  results,  by 
stimulating  all  to  the  discharge  of  their  public  duty,  and  by  ex- 
cluding from  this  important  political  right  only  those  who  had 
failed  to  perform  it. 
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16  [Doc.  No.  33.] 

Popular  Elections. 

Material  changes  seem,  also,  to  be  necessary  in  regard  to  the 
selection  of  various  classes  of  public  officers.  Under  the  consti- 
tution as  it  now  stands,  no  discrimination  is  made  in  the  mode 
of  choosing  public  agents,  founded  on  a  consideration  of  the  na- 
ture of  the  functions  they  have  to  perform.  A  mistaken  desire 
to  propitiate  popular  favor,  rather  than  a  wise  and  well  consider- 
ed purpose  to  give  security  to  individual  rights,  and  stability  and 
dignity  to  the  government,  seems  to  have  controlled  the  action 
of  the  Convention  of  1850.  The  selection  of  almost  every  offi- 
cer, has  been  referred  to  the  people,  and  by  shortening  theotlicial 
term,  as  far  as  possible,  the  officers  are  made  dependent  on  the 
people. 

In  the  oi)inion  of  your  committee,  this  was  a  grave  error. 
Popular  privileges  and  public  liberty,  arc  best  protected  and  de- 
fended, by  placing  in  oflicial  stations,  men  of  intelligence,  integ- 
rity, firmness,  and  wisdom;  and  that  mode  of  selection  is  best, 
which  will  most  effectually  accomplish  this  end.  The  govern- 
ment from  Avhich  we  have  recently  separated,  furnishes  abun- 
dant proof  that  the  wisest  and  best  men,  arc  not  always  the 
popular  favorites. 

In  determining  the  mode  of  selecting  officers,  it  seems  to  your 
committee,  that  some  regard  ought  to  be  had  to  the  nature  of  the 
duties  they  will  be  required  to  discharge.  No  rule  can  be  pre- 
scribed which  will  be  free  from  all  objection,  but  your  commit- 
tee believe,  that  it  would  be  safe  to  assume,  that  all  legislative 
officers,  should  be  elected  by  the  people,  but  that  those  who  are 
to  fulfil  executive,  ox  judicial  trusts,  should  be  chosen  by  inter- 
mediate agents.  There  seems  to  be  good  reason  for  this  dis- 
tinction. Legislation  aftects  the  rights  and  liberties  of  the  whole 
people,  collectively.  Hence  those  who  exercise  legislative  pow- 
ers, should  be  elected  by  the  direct  vote  of  the  people,  and  be 
dependent,  for  their  continuance  in  office,  on  the  will  of  the  peo- 
ple. But  judicial  and  executive  officers,  being  entrusted  with 
the  duty  of  expounding,  and  administering  the  public  will,  as 
expressed  through  the  legislature,  and  in  applying  the  law  to 
individual  cases,  have  functions  to  perform,  which  do  not  con- 
cern the  people  at  large,  and  ought  not  to  be  aflected  by  their 
wishes.  After  laws  are  passed  by  the  Legislature,  (which  speaks 
for  the  ])eo[>I(^),  rights  accrue  to,  and  penalties  are  incurred  by, 
individuals,  which  ought  to  be  fearlessly  and  faithfully  executed, 
without  regard  to  the  wishes  of  a  majt)rity  of  the  people.  A  judi- 
cial officer,  who  would  be  influenced  by  po|)ular  clamor,  in  the 
discharge  of  his  appropriate  functions,  would  jusdy  incur  jaiblic 
contempt.  So  also,  an  executive  officer,  who  would  fail  to  en- 
force a  law,  because  it  was  unpopular,  would  merit  the  severest 


[Doc.  No.  33.]  11 

condemnation.  The  responsibility  of  these  classes  of  oflicers, 
is,  not  to  the  people,  directly,  and  therefore  there  is  no  good  reason 
why  they  should  be  chosen  directly  by  the  people.  All  experi- 
ence proves  that  the  only  class  of  public  servants,  who  can  be 
held  to  a  direct  and  practical  responsibility,  by  the  people,  are 
those  who  exercise  legislative  functions.  Tlie  people  can,  and 
do,  judge  correctly,  of  the  wisdom  and  expediency  of  a  general 
law,  but  it  is  not  to  be  expected,  that  they  would  form  an  enlight- 
ened opinion,  in  regard  to  the  judicial  exposition,  or  executive 
application  of  it,  in  particular  cases.  The  former,  requires  only 
the  exercise  of  sound  judgment,  and  discriminating  conmion 
sense;  the  latter,  demands  legal  training,  familiarity  with  prece- 
dents, and  a  general  knowledge  of  the  principles  of  judicial  de- 
cision, and  executive  action.  The  one  involves  the  considera- 
tion of  the  law  in  its  general  aspects;  the  other  recpiires  a  mi- 
nute investigation  of  individual  cases,  which  the  public,  will 
rarely,  if  ever,  be  either  disposed,  or  competent  to  make. 

Your  committee  are  aware,  that  there  is  something  captivating 
to  the  self  love  of  the  people,  in  the  idea  of  electing  their  own 
officers  of  every  grade,  and  many  will  doubtless  be  found,  who 
will  seek  to  persuade  them,  that  it  is  essential  to  their  freedom, 
that  they  should  continue  to  do  so.  Parasites,  are  always  to  be 
found  around  the  fountains  of  power.  In  monarchies,  they  ex- 
hibit themselves  as  courtiers;  in  republics,  as  those  who  assume 
to  be,  the  peculiar  friends  of  the  people.  Intelligent  men,  how- 
ever, will  perceive,  that  even  under  our  present  Constitution,  the 
people,  really,  have  but  little  to  do  with  the  election  of  the  higher 
classes  of  officers.  The  power  to  elect  exists  more  in  name  than 
in  fact.  The  peculiar  friends  of  the  people,  take  care  to  relieve 
them  of  that  trouble  and  responsibility. 

The  difficulty  of  making  choice  of  suitable  candidates,  arising 
from  a  want  of  knowledge,  by  the  people,  of  the  character  and 
qualifications  of  aspirants,  compels  a  resort  to  nominating  con- 
ventions. These  conventions,  substantially,  make  the  elections, 
and  leave  to  the  |>eople  the  comparatively  unimportant  function, 
of  ratifying,  what  has  been  done  for  them,  by  a  body  of  irre- 
sponsible, and  often  untrustworthy  men.  It  was  through  the 
agency  of  such  an  assemblage  that  the  present  Executive  of"  the 
United  States  was  imposed  on  the  country — and  your  committee 
doubt  if  the  ingenuity  of  venal  politicians,  could  have  devised 
any  other,  by  which  such  a  mischievous  result  could  have  be^n 
accomplished. 

As  a  general  rule,  it  would  be  much  safer  for  the  people,  to 
elect,  in  the  mode  prescibcd  bv  law,  representatives,  in  whose 
ability,  integrity,  and  patriotism,  they  could  confide,  and  leave 
to  them  the  duty,  not  merely  of  framing  the  laws,  but  also,  of 
selecting  the  higher  officers,  to  expound  and  execute  them. 


12  [Doc.  No.  33.J 

Election  of  Governor. 

In  rcgiird  to  tlie  best  mode  of  electing  the  Governor,  some  di- 
versity of  sentiment  lias  existed  among  the  members  of  tlie 
committee.  The  majority  incHne  to  the  opinion  that  he  should 
be  elected  by  the  direct  vote  of  the  people,  as  now  provided  by 
the  Constitution.  The  minority  believe  it  Avould  be  better  to  re- 
turn to  the  ancient  mode  of  electing  by  the  joint  vote  of  the 
General  Assembly. 

At  the  time  the  election  of  Governor  was  referred  to  the  peo- 
ple, it  was,  probably,  not  in  the  contemplation  of  any  one  that 
candidates  would  canvass  the  State  to  obtain  votes  for  an  oUice 
which  had  been  filled  by  Ilcnry,  Jeflerson  and  JMonroe.  It  was 
supposed  that  public  opinion  would  concentrate,  without  diffi- 
culty, on  some  distinguished  statesman,  and  that,  by  the  spon- 
taneous action  of  the  people,  without  solicitation  on  his  part,  he 
would  be  elevated  to  the  chief  magistracy.  But,  as  this  expec- 
tation lias  proved  delusive,  and  the  practice  of  canvassing  ac- 
tively for  the  office,  has  become  too  firmly  established  to  be  dis- 
regarded, a  portion  of  your  committee  believe  that  almost  any 
change  would  be  beneficial  Avhich  Avould  relieve  the  Common- 
wealth of  an  evil  of  such  magnitude. 

It  will  be  generally  conceded  that  the  Governor  of  Virginia 
should  be  a  man  of  mature  age,  of  enlarged  experience,  of 
varied  attainments,  of  calm  wisdom,  of  unsullied  purity  and  of 
manners  and  deportment  calculated  to  command  universal  resjiect. 

The  minority  of  the  committee  believe  that  the  General  As- 
sembly of  Virginia,  regularly  elected  under  the  authority  of  law, 
representing  the  whole  Commonwealth,  and  acting  under  the 
sanctions  of  an  official  oath,  would  be  more  likely  to  make  a 
wise  selection  of  a  Governor  than  an  excited  convention  of  irre- 
sponsible men,  selected  and  convened  for  partizan  purposes,  and 
restrained  by  no  sense  of  responsibility  to  the  constituent  body, 
nor  by  the  obligations  of  an  oath.  With  such  a  convention, 
availability  for  an  active  and  successful  canvass,  would  be  looked 
to  in  ])relbrence  to  those  more  solid  qualifications  which  were 
the  tests  of  fitness  in  the  earlier  and  better  days  of  the  Republic. 

Election  of  Ju(l<^cs  and  Tenure  of  Office. 

There  seems  to  be  a  general  concurrence  of  sentiment  in  all 
parts  of  the  Commonwealth,  that  in  all  judicial  elections  party 
ctknsiderations  should  be  disregarded.  'J'lie  ermine  of  justice 
should  never  be  soiled  by  the  dust  of  partizan  conflict.  Judges 
should  be  selected  exclusively  with  regard  to  their  purity  of 
character  and  judicial  qualifications;  and,  when  chosen,  they 
should  be  elevated  above  every  influence  which  might  tend  to 
bias  their  judgment  between  parties  litigant.  Their  tenure  of 
office  should  be  such  as  to  make  them  independent  of  popular 


I 


[Doc.  No.  33.]  13 

caprice.  An  upright  and  independent  judiciary  is  the  great 
bulwark  of  constitutional  liberty.  It  often  becomes  the  duty  of 
Judges  to  decide  causes  in  which  the  sentiment  of  an  excited 
conmiunity  is  arrayed  against  a  single  friendless  individual.  No 
temptation  should  be  held  out  to  them  to  swejvc  from  the  path 
of  justice  by  appeals  to  their  hopes  of  reelection  or  fears  of 
defeat.  Human  nature  is  weak,  and  no  class  of  men  should  be 
placed  in  a  position  in  which  their  personal  interests  may  come 
into  conflict  with  the  impartial  discharge  of  public  duty. 

Prior  to  the  English  revolution  of  1688,  .fudges  held  their 
offices  during  the  pleasure  of  the  Crown.  As  a  natural  conse- 
quence, they  were  too  often  the  pliant  tools  of  arbitrary  power. 
After  the  revolution  had  been  accomplished  and  the  principles 
of  constitutional  liberty  established  on  a  firm  basis,  the  judicial 
tenure  was  changed  to  <^good  behavior,"  and  from  that  hour  to 
the  present,  an  independent  judiciary  has  been  the  palladium  of 
British  liberty. 

The  same  considerations  which  rendered  an  independent 
judiciary  essential  to  freedom  in  England, apply  with  equal  force 
in  Virginia.  It  is  true  that  the  people  are  sovereign  here,  but  it 
often  becomes  as  necessary  for  Judges  to  annul  the  unconstitu- 
tional acts  of  the  Legislature, representing  the  popular  will, or  to 
resist  the  clamor  of  an  excited  people,  as  to  maintain  a  manly 
stand  against  the  usurpations  of  a  tyrant. 

Your  committee,  therefore,  recommend  that  the  tenure  of  all 
the  Judges  be  enlarged  to  ''  good  behavior." 

Under  the  Constitutions  of  1770  and  1830,  Judges  of  the 
Court  of  Appeals  and  Circuit  Court'  were  elected  by  joint  vote 
of  the  General  Assembly.  By  the  present  Constitution,  it  is 
provided  that  they  shall  be  elected  by  the  direct  vote  of  the  peo- 
ple in  sections  and  circuits  arranged  by  the  Legislature. 

Experience  has  shown  that  both  these  modes  of  selecting 
Judges  are  liable  to  grave  objections.  In  times  of  high  political 
excitement,  it  has  been  found  impossible  to  exclude  party  con- 
siderations from  judicial  elections,  whether  made  by  the  Legis- 
lature or  the  people.  Your  comnnttee,  therefore,  reconnuend 
that  both  these  modes  of  ap])ointmcnt  shall  be  discarded,  and 
that,  hereafter,  all  Judges  shall  be  nominated  by  the  Executive, 
and  appointed  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate. 
This  mode  of  appointment  scrured  to  the  late  Federal  Govern- 
ment an  able  and  faithful  judiciary,  and  it  has  recently  received 
the  sanction  of  the  framers  of  the  Constitution  of  the  Confederate 
States. 

Justices  of  ihn  Peace — mode  of  Appointment  and  Tenure. 

The  duties  of  jutices  of  the  peace  are  of  a  mixed  nature, 
partaking,  in   some  degree,  both  of  a  legislative  and  judicial 


14  [Doc.  No.  33.] 

charartcr.  They  are  required  to  impose  county  taxes  and  to  ap- 
projiriatc  county  revenue,  as  well  as  to  govern  the  local  police  and 
administer  justice.  In  view  of  these  facts,  there  was  a  dilier- 
ence  of  opinion  in  the  committee  in  regard  to  the  mode  of  ap- 
pointment and  the  tenure  of  oljicc.  Some  members  preferred  the 
system  which  prevailed  under  the  Constitutions  of  1T7G  and 
1830.  They  contended  that  that  system  iiad  been  approved  by 
the  experience  of  three-quarters  of  a  century,  during  all  which 
time,  it  gave  to  the  (Jonmionwealth  an  upright,  able,  intelligent 
and  independent  magistracy,  which  executed  the  laws  fearlessly 
and  faithfully,  and  managed  the  county  finances  Avith  integrity 
and  economy. 

A  majority  of  the  conunittee,  however,  preferred  the  system  of 
electing  justices  by  the  peoj)le  for  a  term  of  years;  but  all  con- 
curred in  the  opinion  that  the  present  term  is  too  short,  and  that 
it  should  be  extended  to  six  years.  Should  ])roj)er  limitations 
be  imposed  on  the  right  of  sulTrage,  it  is  hoped  diat  the  elective 
system  may  prove  more  satisfactory  in  its  practical  operations 
under  this  mode  of  selection  than  it  has  been  under  the  present 
Constitution. 

Mayors,  Recorders  and  Aldermen. 

In  view  of  the  peculiar  character  of  the  population  of  our 
cities  and  large  towns,  many  of  whom  hold  but  little  of  those 
kinds  of  property  which  have  to  bear  tlic  burthen  of  taxation, 
and  a  large  number  being  mere  temporary  sojourners,  your  com- 
mittee are  of  the  opinion  that  the  public  interests  would  be  pro- 
moted by  withdrawing  the  election  of  mayors,  recorders,  ser- 
geants and  other  ministerial  officers  from  the  people  and  referring 
it  to  the  Common  Councils,  elected  by  the  popular  vote.  The 
council,  deriving  its  existence  from,  and  being  dependent  on  the 
peo])le,  will  have  every  inducement  to  consult  their  true  interests, 
and  being  a  select  body,  generally  of  intelligent  and  responsible 
men  and  permanent  residents,  will  linve  better  opportunities  of 
informing  themselves  of  the  qualifications  of  candidates  than  the 
public  at  large,  and  can,  therefore,  make  wiser  selections  of 
officers.  Other  considerations,  which  will  hereafter  be  adverted 
to,  lend  additional  force  to  this  recommendation. 

Election  and  Tenure  of  Office  of  Sheriffs,    Sergeants,   Clerks, 
Commonwealth's  Attorneys  and  other  Ministerial  Offices. 

In  the  judgment  of  your  committee  it  was  a  wide  departure 
from  the  true-  printnplesof  representative  republican  government, 
to  require  that  ministerial  oflicers,  such  as  sheriffs,  clerks,  attor- 
nies  fijr  the  Commonwealth,  commissioners  of  the  revenue,  con- 
stables, &c.,  should  be  elected  by  the  direct  vote  of  the  people. 


[Doc.  No.  33.J  U 

The  multiplication  of  elections  is  of  itself  a  serious  evil.  The 
time  lost  in  attending  the  elections,  is  a  matter  of  no  small  im- 
portance to  the  conmiunity.  But  there  are  other  evils  attending 
the  system,  of  a  much  more  serious  character.  Among  these  are 
the  tendency  to  demoralize  and  corrupt  the  voters;  the  increase 
of  the  number  and  greed  of  candidates  for  small  offices;  the  in- 
auguration of  a  corrupt  system  of  electioneering;  the  encourage- 
ment of  dissipation  and  idleness,  and  a  disposition  on  the  part 
of  many  to  live  on  the  emoluments  of  office,  instead  of  by  the 
earnings  of  patient  industry; — the  sacrifice  of  independence  of 
thought  and  manly  feeling;  a  pliant  subserviency  to  popular  ca- 
price; and  the  fdling  of  positions  of  trust  and  responsibility , 
with  unfaithful  and  incompetent  men.  Public  offices,  instead 
of  being  looked  upon  by  voters,  as  public  trusts,  to  be  conferred 
on  the  most  worthy,  are  too  often  regarded  as  rewards  or  gratui- 
ties to  be  bestowed  on  popular  favorites,  without  reference  to 
their  capacity  to  discharge  the  duties.  Officers  thus  elected,  nat- 
urally feel  themselves  under  obligations  to  those  who  supported 
them,  and,  not  unfrcquently,  discharge  their  debt  of  gratitude, 
out  of  the  public  treasury. 

Ministerial  officers  operate  directly  on  the  people,  and  it  is  ex- 
pecting too  much  from  human  nature,  to  suppose,  that  they  will 
not  discriminate  between  those  who  favored  and  those  who  op- 
posed their  election.  It  will  not  be  denied  that,  since  this  class 
of  officers  have  been  made  elective  by  the  people,  the  laws  have 
been  less  rigidly  enforced,  and  the  public  interests  less  faithfully 
guarded. 

To  illustrate  this  proposition,  your  committee  need  only  refer 
to  the  shameful  delinquency  of  sherilTs,  clerks  and  other  officers, 
in  regard  to  the  public  revenue.  Under  the  old  system  of  se- 
lecting these  officers,  a  defalcation  was  a  matter  of  rare  occur- 
rence, but  under  the  system  of  popular  elections,  as  will  be  seen 
from  the  records  in  the  office  of  the  1st  Auditor,  there  are  but 
twelve  counties  in  the  Commonwealth,  in  which  sheriffs  have 
not  been  defaulters!  In  this  way,  vast  losses  have  accrued  to 
the  revenue,  and  the  people  of  those  counties  which  have  not 
been  delinquent  are  required  to  contribute  to  make  good  the  de- 
ficiency occasioned  by  the  default  of  others. 

The  increase  in  the  number  of  defaulting  clerks,  is  almost  in 
the  same  ratio,  and  demands,  with  equal  emphasis,  the  applica- 
tion of  a  suitable  corrective. 

The  elective  system  has  worked  quite  as  unfortunately,  in  re- 
gard to  Commonwealth's  attorneys.  This  office  requires,  for  the 
efficient  discharge  of  its  duties,  talents  and  attainments  of  a  pe- 
culiar character.  They  can  be  understood  and  appreciated  only 
by  those  who  are  familiar  with  the  administration  of  justice.  It 
is  no  disparagement  of  the  intelligence  of  the  people,  therefore, 


16  [Doc.  No.  33.] 

to  say,  that  it  is  inexpedient  to  refer  to  them  the  election  of  an 
attorney.  They  cannot  judge  of  his  capacity  to  frame  an  in- 
formation or  indictment,  or  to  fulfd  other  duties  involving  famili- 
arity with  lo£Tid  technicahlios.  It  lias  often  happened,  therefore, 
that  the  jieopje,  forming  a  mistaken  estimate  of  the  ollice,  have 
elected  men  utterly  incompetent  to  discharge  its  duties.  The 
consequence  is,  criminals  escape  just  punishment,  unless  the 
court,  or  private  parties,  obtain  the  assistance  of  a  competent 
lawyer,  to  assist  the  official  representative  of  the  Common- 
wealth. 

Constables. 

The  complaint  is  general  throughout  the  Commonwealth, 
that  under  tlie  present  system,  this  class  of  ofiicers  are  negligent 
and  inoiricient.  Tiie  parlies  who  feel  most  interest  in  the  elec- 
tion of  constables,  are  those  on  whom  they  will  be  most  likely 
to  be  required  to  exercise  their  functions.  It  is  their  interest  to 
select  those  who  will  be  most  lenient,  and  accordingly,  in  many 
counties,  it  has  been  impossible  to  procure  the  services  of  vigi- 
lant and  prompt  men,  in  the  olfice  of  constable. 

Your  committee  are  of  the  opinion  that  the  election  of  sheriffs, 
sergeants,  clerks,  attornies  for  the  Commonwealth,  constables, 
surveyors  and  commissioners  of  the  revenue,  should  be  with- 
drawn from  the  people  and  confided  to  the  courts.  They  should 
hold  their  offices  for  a  term  of  years,  but  be  removable  at  the 
pleasure  of  the  court.  They  should  be  reeligible  from  term  to 
term,  indefinitely,  Avith  the  single  restriction  that  no  officer  en- 
trusted with  the  collection  or  disbursement  of  any  public  money 
belonging  to  the  Commonwealth  or  his  county,  shall  be  reeligible 
unless  he  shall  produce  satisfactory  evidence  that  he  has  ho- 
nestly and  faithfully  accounted  for  the  same  according  to  law. 

The  effect  of  this  provision  will  be  to  stimulate  officers  to  the 
prompt  and  efficient  discharge  of  their  duty,  by  the  hope  of  re- 
taining their  offices;  to  secure  to  the  public  vigilant  and  effec- 
tive agents  in  every  ministerial  office,  and  to  lighten  the  burthens 
of  taxation  by  saving  large  sums  of  money  which  are  now 
annually  lost  to  the  treasury. 

Should  these  amendments,  to  the  Constitution  receive  the 
sanction  of  the  Convention  and  be  ratified  by  the  people,  your 
committee  cherish  the  confident  hope  that  public  liberty  and 
private  rights  Avill  be  established  on  a  sale  and  permanent 
foundation. 


[DOC.  NO.  XXXIV.] 

• 


HEPOKT 


OF    THE 


001^MITTE3E3 


ON 


ELECTIONS. 


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REPORT. 


The  Committoe  of  Elections  Report  to  the  Convention : 

That  John  N.  Hendren,  of  the  county  of  Augusta,  has  been 
duly  elected  a  member  of  the  Convention  to  fill  the  vacancy  oc- 
casioned by  the  resignation  of  John  B.  Baldwin. 

That  William  G.  Brawner,  of  the  county  of  Prince  William, 
has  been  duly  elected  a  member  of  the  Convention  to  fill  the 
vacancy  occasioned  by  the  resignation  of  Eppa  Hunton. 

That  John  B.  Young,  of  the  county  of  Henrico,  has  been 
duly  elected  a  memi^er  of  the  Convention  to  fill  the  vacancy  oc- 
casioned by  the  resignation  of  Williams  C.  Wickham. 

That  Thomas  J.  Randolpli,  of  the  county  of  Albemarle,  has 
been  duly  elected  a  memljer  of  the  Convention  to  fill  the  va- 
cancy occasioned  by  the  death  of  Valentine  W.  Southall. 

The  Committee  further  report  that  the  Convention  failed  to 
provide,  at  its  last  session,  a  method  by  which  elections  to  fill 
vacancies  existing  in  the  Convention,  should  be  held,  in  cases 
■where  such  elections  could  not  be  held  in  the  proper  counties  by 
reason  of  their  occupancy  by  the  public  enemy,  although  the 
Convention  did  provide  for  such  contingency  in  the  case  of  elec- 
tions for  Electors  for  President  and  Vice  President  of  the  Con- 
federate States  and  of  elections  for  members  of  the  Confederate 
Congress,  that  after  the  adjournment  of  the  Convention,  the 
Governor  of  the  State  issued  his  proclamation  (which  the  Com- 
mittee deem  advisory)  authorizing  the  soldiers  in  camp  and 
other  citizens  driven  from  their  respective  counties  by  the  public 
enemy,  in  which  counties  no  poll  could  be  opened  for  members 
of  the  Convention,  by  reason  of  such  counties  being  thus  in 
the  possession  of  the  public  enemy,  to  vote  at  the  different 
camps  in  the  Strttc  where  elections  were  authorized  to  be  held 
by  order  of  the  Convention  for  electors  and  members  of  the  Con- 
federate Congress,  and  also  at  the  court  houses  of  the  respective 
counties  (not  in  possession  of  the  public  enemy)  where  such 
citizens  sojourned  for  the  time  being,  and  at  such  elections  to 
cast  their  votes  for  members  of  the  Convention  as  though  they 
were  voting  in  their  respective  counties.  Under  this  j)rocIania- 
lion  an  election  was  had  to  fill  vacancies  in  the  Convention,  oc- 
casioued  by  the  expulsion  of  Campbell  Tarr,  Chester  D.  Hub- 


r-  [Doc.  No.  34.] 

bard,  James  Biirley,  Marsliall  M.  Dent,  William  G.  Brown, 
James  C.  McGrew,  Ephraim  13.  Hall,  John  S.  Burdett,  John  8. 
Carlile  and  John  J.  Jackson.  The  election  was  held  chiefly  in 
the  different  camps  occupied  by  Virginia  soldiers;  alihougb  some 
of  the  citizens  thus  driven  from  their  homes  voted  at  the  court 
liouse  in  the  city  of  Richmond,  at  which  place  six  votes  only 
were  cast  and  they  were  all  from  the  county  of  Marion,  and 
none  of  them  were  cast  for  the  candidate  who  received  the 
largest  number  of  votes. 

The  Committee  regard  it  as  important  that  the  loyal  citizens 
of  the  various  counties  of  the  State  in  which  these  vacancies 
existed  by  the  expulsions  aforesaid,  should  be  represented  and 
heard  in  the  Convention,  as  the  action  of  the  Convention  will 
60  materially  affect  the  rights  and  interests  of  the  people  of  the 
counties  albresaid  in  conunon  with  all  other  portions  of  the 
State,  proposing,  as  it  does,  to  change  and  modify  the  organic 
law  of  the  State  and  to  transact  other  important  business  mate- 
rially affecting  their  welfare  and  interests  in  the  future.  It 
seems  to  the  Committee  that  it  is  eminently  proper  that  the  loyal 
citizens  of  disaffected  portions  of  the  State  should  enjoy  their 
fullest  rights  as  citizens,  and  not  be  deprived  thereof  either  by 
the  disloyalty  of  some  or  by  the  presence  and  power  of  the  pub- 
lic enemy,  and  the  Convention  seems  to  have  very  properly  re- 
cognized this  principle  in  its  provisions  for  voting  in  such  cases 
for  Electors  for  President  and  Vice  President  of  the  Confederate 
States  and  for  members  of  Congress.  It  seems  to  the  Commit- 
tee that  the  failure  on  the  part  of  the  Convention  to  make  a  simi- 
lar provision  for  voting  for  members  of  the  Convention  arose 
from  inadvertence,  especially  as  the  expulsions  took  place  after 
the  propriety  of  such  votes  had  been  thus  recognized,  and  the 
Committee  can  see  no  reason  why  these  citizens  and  soldiers 
thus  recognized  as  competent  and  qualified  to  vote  for  electors 
and  members  of  Congress  should  not  be  equally  qualified  to 
vote  for  members  of  the  Convention.  Had  the  votes  thus  cast 
in  camp  by  the  loyal  citizens  only  been  cast  in  their  respective 
counties,  even  though  the  disaffected  refused  to  vole,  no  ques- 
tion could  be  raised  as  to  the  legality  of  the  election,  and  they 
were  prevented  from  tlius  voting  only  by  their  being  in  the  ser- 
vice of  their  country  and  by  the  occupation  of  their  homes  by 
the  public  enemy. 

The  elections  were  held  by  commissioners  appointed  in  the 
same  manner  as  the  commissioners  to  conduct  the  elections  of 
electors  and  members  of  Congress  were  ajipointed. 

While  the  committee  regard  these  elections  thus  held  under 
the  proclamation  of  the  Governor  as  irregular  in  the  single  fact 
only  that  the  places  of  voting  were  thereby  increased  to  conform 
to  the  necessities  of  the  voters,  yet  the  committee  are  of  opinion, 


[Doc.  No.  34]  ^^ 


under  the  circumstances,  that  the  elections  should  be  recognized 
and  confirmed  by  the  Convention  as  contemplated  by  the  terms 
of  the  proclamation  of  the  Governor. 

The  committee  fnrther  report,  that  at  the  elections  held  as 
aforesaid,  Joseph  H.  Pendleton,  of  the  county  of  Ohio,  received 
a  majority  of  the  votes  cast  to  supply  the  vacancy  occasioned  by 
the  expulsion  of  Chester  D.  Hubbard,  former  delegate  from  said 
county  of  Oiiio. 

That  Joseph  D.  Pickett,  of  the  county  of  Brooke,  received  a 
majority  of  the  votes  cast  to  fill  the  vacancy  occasioned  by  the 
expulsion  of  Campbell  Tarr,  formerly  delegate  from  said  county 
of  Brooke. 

That  Jefferson  T.  Martin,  of  the  County  of  Marshall,  received 
a  majority  of  the  votes  cast  to  fill  the  vacancy  occasioned  by  tho 
expulsion  of  James  Burley,  formerly  delegate  from  said  county 
of  Marshall. 

That  Stephen  A.  Morgan,  of  the  county  of  Marion,  received 
a  majority  of  the  votes  cast  to  fill  the  vacancy  occasioned  by  the 
expulsion  of  E.  B.  Hall,  formerly  delegate  from  said  county  of 
Marion. 

That  Jonathan  M.  Heck,  of  the  county  of  Monongalia,  re- 
ceived a  majority  of  the  votes  cast  to  fill  the  vacancy  occasioned 
by  the  expulsion  of  Marshall  M.  Dent,  formerly  a  delegate  from 
said  county  of  Monongalia. 

That  Robert  E.  Cowan  and  C.  J.  Pindall  Cresap,  of  the 
county  of  Preston,  each  received  a  majority  of  the  votes  cast  to 
fill  the  vacancies  occasioned  by  the  expulsion  of  William  G. 
Brown  and  James  C.  McGrew,  formerly  delegates  from  said 
county  of  Preston. 

That  John  A.  Robinson,  of  the  county  of  Taylor,  received  a 
majority  of  the  votes  cast  to  fill  the  vacancy  occasioned  by  the 
expulsion  of  John  S.  Burdett,  formerly  delegate  from  said  county 
of  Taylor. 

That  William  P.  Cooper,  of  the  county  of  Harrison,  received 
a  majority  of  the  votes  cast  to  fill  the  vacancy  occasioned  by  the 
expulsion  of  John  S.  Carlile,  formerly  delegate  from  said  county 
of  Harrison. 

That  Edward  D.  McGuire,  of  the  county  of  Wood,  received 
a  majority  of  the  votes  cast  to  fill  the  vacancj  occasioned  by  the 
expulsion  of  John  J.  Jackson,  formerly  delegate  from  said  county 
of  Wood. 

The  Committee  further  report  that  since  the  adjournment  of 
the  Convention,  Jolui  N.  Hughes,  a  delegate  from  the  counties 
of  Randolph  and  Tucker,  has  departed  this  life,  (having  been 
killod  at  Rich  ^Mountain,)  and  an  election  was  held  under  a  pro- 
clamation of  the  Governor  in  the  same  manner  as  in  the  forego- 
ing instances,  the  counties  of  Randolph  and  Tucker  being  in 


6  [Doc.  No.  34.] 

like  manner  in  the  possession  of  the  pubhc  enemy  on  the  clay  of 
the  election. 

Jacob  Marshall  received  a  majority  of  the  votes  cast  to  supply 
the  vacancy  occasioned  by  the  death  of  said  John  N.  Hughes, 
late  a  member  of  this  body. 

The  Committee  have  no  returns  of  votes  taken  to  supply  tlie 
vacancies  existing  in  the  counties  of  Tyler  and  Doddridge  and 
Hancock,  occasioned  bv  the  expulsion  of  the  members  from 
these  counties,  and  they  are  not  as  yet  informed  that  any  such 
elections  were  held. 

In  consideration  of  tlie  matters  stated  in  the  premises,  the 
Committee  have  come  to  tlie  following  conclusion,  wbich  they 
respectfully  submit  for  the  consideration  of  the  Convention,  viz: 

Resolved,  That  Joseph  H.  Pendleton,  Joseph  D.  Pickett, 
Jefferson  T.  Martin,  Jonathan  M.  Heck,  Robert  E.  Cowan,  C. 
J.  Pindall  Cresap,  Stephen  A.  Morgan,  John  A.  Robinson,  Wil- 
liam R.  Cooper,  Edward  D.  McGuire  and  Jacob  Marshall  be 
and  are  hereby  entitled  to  seats  in  the  Convention  as  members 
thereof. 

The  Committee  ask  to  be  discharged  from  the  further  consi- 
deration of  the  case  of  Waitman  T.  Willey,  as  the  Convention 
has  already  acted  thereon. 

A.  F.  HAYMOND;  Chairman. 


[DOC.  NO.  XXXV.] 


MESSAGE 


FROM  THE 


EXECTTIVE  OF  THE  COMiMO^J WEALTH, 


WITH 


ACCOMPANYING  DOCUMENTS, 


SHOWING  THE 


JIILITARY  AND  NAVAL  I'R  EPA  RATIONS 

FOR  THE 

DEFENCE  OF  THE  STATE  OF  VIRGINIA, 


31 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  a 


MESSAGE. 


Executive  Department,  ) 
June  17,  1801.      \ 
Geiitleynen  of  the  Convention: 

Justice  to  the  Executive,  and  those  Avho  have  been  associated 
with  him  in  the  administrati(jn  of  the  State  Government,  imper- 
atively demands  that  a  full  detail  of  all  that  has  been  done,  shall 
be  submitted  to  the  (convention,  in  order  that  it  may  have  a  place 
upon  the  public  records  and  thus  go  down  to  posterity.  The 
present  is  an  occasion  of  deep  interest  and  importance  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  State,  and  I  trust,  therefore,  that  this  detail  of  facts, 
sustained  by  proofs  that  cannot  be  gainsaid  or  controverted  will 
not  be  considered  either  as  untimely  or  ont  of  place. 

In  my  inaugural  message,  I  embraced  the  opportunity  to  advise 
the  "General  Assembly,"  that  it  was  their  '■'■  duty  to  place  the 
State  in  such  a  condition  that  she  will  be  prepared  at  all  times, 
and  upon  the  shortest  notice  to  protect  her  honor,  defend  her 
rights,  and  maintain  her  institutions  against  all  assaults  of  her 
enemies.  With  this  view,  1  recommend  a  careful  revision  of  the 
militia  law;  and  in  this  connection,  I  suggested  that  munitions 
of  war  be  procured  and  provision  be  made  for  the  organization 
of  an  efficient  military  staff."  I  recommended  at  the  same  time, 
the  passage  of  a  bill  '^  for  the  organization  of  a  brigade  of  min- 
ute men,"  and  furnished  the  draft  of  a  bill  for  the  accomplishment 
of  this  object. 

On  the  31st  day  of  January,  1860,  the  General  Assembly 
passed  ''  an  act  making  an  appropriation  of  one  hundred  and 
eighty  thousand  dollars  to  purchase  such  arms,  equipments  and 
munitions  as  may  be  required  for  the  immediate  use  of  the 
State."  This  sum  was  to  be  expended  under  the  direction  of  a 
Commission,  to  be  appointed  by  the  Executive,  and  consisted 
of  Col.  P.  St.  Geo.  Cocke,  Maj.  Geo.  W.  Randolph  and  Col.  F. 
H.  Smith,  who  were  appointed  immediately  after  the  passage  of 
the  act,  and  entered  upon  the  discharge  of  their  duties.  No  men 
were  ever  more  prompt  and  faithful  in  the  performance  of  a  pub- 
lic duty,  and  their  action  received  the  approval  of  the  General 
Assembly.  Cut  of  this  appropriation,  thirteen  rifle  cannon,  five 
thousand  percussion  muskets,  revolvers,  cavalry  sabres,  fifty  thou- 
sand pounds  of  powder  and  other  articles  were  purchased.  The 
entire  sum  was  expended,  as  will  fully  appear  from  the  report  of 
Maj.  Randolph,  made  to  the  General  Assembly  on  the  1st  day  of 
April  last;  and  herewith  transmitted.     (Appendix  A.) 


4'  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

By  an  art  passed  January  29th,  1861 ,  it  was  made  the  duty  of 
the  Colonel  of  Ordnance,  under  direction  of  the  Governor,  to 
procure  the  necessary  arms,  equipments  and  munitions  of  war, 
for  thedeffMice  of  the  State.  He  is  authorized,  also,  to  contract 
for  tlie  mamifacture  of  equipments  and  nninitions,  and  to  buy 
materials  therefor,  and  to  contract  for  ahering  and  improving  can- 
non and  small  arms,  and  to  purchase  machinery  and  materials 
therefor.  The  act  appropriates  ,9800,000  to  accomplish  these 
jnirposes.  Col.  Charles  Dimmockwas  nominated  to  the  Senate, 
and  confirmed  as  Colonel  of  Ordnance,  and  innnediately  entered 
ujxin  the  discharge  of  his  duties.  His  report  herewith  trans- 
mitted (Ap])endix  13)  will  show  what  was  done  under  this  act. 
liy  the  same  act  the  Governor  is  authorized  to  employ  an  Engi- 
neer, to  plan  and  construct  coast,  harbor  and  river  delcMices,  and 
to  execute  the  same  if  approved  by  the  Governor.  For  this  po- 
sition Col.  Talcott  was  selected,  and  he  has  been  most  industri- 
ously and  energetically  employed  in  the  discharge  of  his  important 
duties.  The  act  also  provided  for  the  construction  of  three  ar- 
senals in  dilferent  sections  of  the  State,  and  for  the  pnrposes 
mentioned  in  this  paragraph,  the  sum  of  S'-OO.OOO  was  appropri- 
ated. Under  this  act  the  amounts  ai)propriated  could  not  be  raised 
in  the  usual  mode,  by  the  sale  of  State  bonds;  the  bonds  having 
depreciated  twenty  per  cent,  or  more,  and  our  law  prohibiting 
their  sale  at  less  than  their  par  value.  Hence  an  act  was  passed 
on  the  14th  day  of  Marcli  thereafter,  authorizing  the  issue  of  one 
million  of  dollars  of  treasury  notes.  This  act  authorized  the 
Governor  to  direct  the  Auditor  to  borrow  for  the  State,  from  time 
to  time,  the  sum  aforesaid  and  to  issue  treasury  notes  therelor. 
Under  this  act  the  banks  were  authorized  to  discount  or  pur- 
chase such  treasury  notes. 

The  Convention  subsequently,  by  an  ordinance  passed  April 
30th,  1861,  authorized  the  Governor  to  raise  for  the  defences  of 
the  State,  by  treasury  notes,  a  sum  not  exceeding  two  millions  of 
dollars.  These  notes  are  made;  ))ayabl(^  to  bearer,  and  are  re- 
deemable one  year  after  their  dates,  and  when  paid,  are  to  be 
cancelled  and  re-issues  are  authorized  for  a  like  amount. 

In  less  than  one  week  after  the  passage  of  the  ordinance  of 
secession,  the  Navy  Department  was  fully  and  etiectively  organ- 
ized, and  the  rei)ort  of  Capt.  J3arron,  the  oUic.er  in  charge, 
(which  is  herewith  transmitted  and  will  he  limnd  in  Appendix 
C,)  shows  how  much  has  been  done  in  an  incredibly  short  time. 

The  Slate  has  had  full  \vork  for  all  the  ollicers,  seamen  and 
marines  embraced  in  this  organization,  and  all,  so  far  as  1  know 
or  believe,  have  worked  laboriously,  cheerfully  and  elfectively. 
Hesides  the  laborious  work  of  removing  the  heavy  guns  and 
other  munitions  from  the  Navy  Yard  to  the  various  points  on  our 
river  at  whiijh  the  bultgries  arc  located;  wc  havg  had  lo  construct 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  5 

the  gun  carriages  and  to  provide  the  necessary  fixed  ammuni- 
tion for  the  batteries  Those  batteries  are  in  good  working  order 
and  are  effectively  manned.  The  fact  that  these  guns  weigh 
from  five  to  ten  thousand  pounds  each,  with  transportation  es- 
sentially by  land,  will  show  the  amount  of  labor  required  to  get 
them  in  position. 

Besides,  the  steam  frigate  Merrimac,  which  had  been  sunk  by 
the  Federal  authorities  and  burned  to  the  water's  edge  when 
they  deserted  the  Navy  Yard,  has  been  raised  and  is  now  in  the 
naval  Dry  Dock  undergoing  repairs.  An  effective  battery  has 
been  placed  on  board  the  frigate  United  States  and  the  Navy  Yard 
itself  is  well  prepared  for  vigorous  defence.  At  Richmond  the 
steamer  Yorktown  has  been  nearly  completed,  as  a  war  steamer,  Sy 
and  a  steam  tug  bought  by  the  State  has  been  completely  fitted 
up.  These  will  soon  be  ready  to  cooperate  with  the  other  mili- 
tary operations  and  will  be  prepared  to  render  efficient  service. 

Frovisonal  Army. — Appointments  in  the  higher  grades  were 
confined  to  retired  officers  of  the  army  who  had  left  the  service 
of  the  United  States.  To  carry  into  immediate  effect  the  provi- 
sions for  recruiting,  appointments  were  made  of  a  number  of  first 
and  second  lieuteiiauts.  nearly  one  half  of  wdiom  are  graduates 
of  the  Virginia  Military  Institute,  and  they  have  been  distributed 
throughout  the  state  on  recruiting  service.  It  is  now  satisfacto- 
rily ascertained  that  while  the  volunteer  organization  is  so  ac- 
tively pressed,  as  it  now  is,  in  our  State,  it  is  impossible  to  raise 
the  ten  thousand  men  proposed  by  the  ordinance.  One  regi- 
ment perhaps  may  i)e  raised.  To  give  employment  to  the  young 
officers,  the  commanding  general  has  made  good  use  of  them  iu 
organizing  and  drilling  the  volunteers  as  they  were  received  at 
the  various  camps  of  instruction.  As  many  of  them  as  may  be 
required  for  this  and  the  engineer  service,  may  be  retained  with 
advantage  until  their  services  shall  be  no  longer  necessary — the 
remainder  might  be  disbanded  after  organizing  the  companies 
already  recruited. 

The  report  of  Major  General  Lee  is  herewith  transmitted,  and 
I  commend  it  to  the  attention  of  the  Convention.  It  presents 
information  that  cannot  fail  to  be  interesting  and  instructive,  as  it 
shows  the  progress  of  our  military  matters  since  the  ordinance 
of  secession  was  passed.     (Appendix  D.) 

The  Harper's  Ferry  machinery  and  the  disposition  made  of 
it,  was  the  subject  of  a  previous  communication  and  to  that  and 
the  accompanying  paper  I  refer. 

I  transmit  a  copy  of  the  proclamation  turning  over  the  military 
power  of  the  State  to  the  Confederate  States.  The  terms  are 
satisfactory,  I  believe,  to  both  sides.     (Appendix  E.) 

The  intercourse  between  the  Council  and  the  Executive  has 
been  of  the  most  agreeable  character.     The  journal,  regularly 


e  [Doo.  1^0.  35.] 

kept,  will  show  that  their  action  has  been  characterized  by  a  re- 
markable unanimity,  and  it  is  a  source  of  satisfaction  to  me  to 
know  that  I  liavo  rarely  felt  constrained  to  dissent  from  their 
advice.  Their  services  have  been  appreciated  by  me  and  should 
be  appreciated  by  the  State. 

The  rule  which  has  regulated  me  in  making  appointments  was 
to  ascertain,  in  the  first  "place,  whether  the  applicant  was  loyal 
to  the  State.  If  he  was  loyal,  competent  and  efficient  it  was  all 
I  re(juired.  In  making  my  selections  I  have  not  regarded  old 
party  divisions.  Whether  a  man  originally  belonged  to  the  one 
or  the  other  of  the  old  political  parties,  into  which  our  people 
liave  been  divided,  was  an  incpiiry  that  I  thought  unworthy  of 
the  times.  We  had  a  common  interest  and  a  common  object  in 
defending  our  state  against  the  assaults  of  the  Federal  Govern- 
ment and  my  desire  was  to  make  our  people  a  unit,  if  possible, 
for  the  successful  prosecution  of  the  great  work  which  was  be- 
fore us.  I  think  I  can  safely  allirm  that  there  is  not  the  name  of 
an  unfaithful  son  of  the  Commonwealth  upon  the  list,  and  it  is 
cause  of  congratulation  with  me  to  know  that  they  have  been 
confirmed  by  the  council  with  very  general  unanimity.  No  one 
was  objected  to,  as  I  am  informed,  on  the  score  of  a  want  of 
fidelity  to  the  State. 

The  commissary,  quartermaster  and  medical  appointments 
were  made  at  the  earliest  practicable  moment  alter  the  authority 
was  given,  and  although  some  bad  appointments  were  made, 
(some  of  which  have  been  removed,)  the  result  has  shown  great 
efficiency  in  all  these  departments.  The  paymaster's  department 
has  also  been  organized,  and  will,  I  believe,  prove  as  efficient  as 
the  others. 

When  the  war  commenced,  I  was  greatly  embarrassed  not  only 
from  my  own  want  of  knowledge  in  military  matters,  but  also 
from  the  want  of  experienced  military  advisers,  conunanders  and 
an  organized  staff  corps.  Under  these  circumstances,  I  was 
called  at  once  to  make  provision  for  conunands  at  the  important 
points  of  Norfolk,  Harper's  Ferry,  Alexandria  and  Fredericks- 
burg. Until  Clen.  Lee  was  appointed,  I  was  without  the  aid  and 
advice  of  an  experienced  military  man.  If  1  have,  under  these 
circumstances,  made  blunders,  it  is  not  to  be  wondered  at — the 
only  wonder  is  that  1  have  not  committed  many  more. 

The  Slate  has  ])aid  out  under  the  dirertion  of  the  auditing 
board  from  the  31st  day  of  April  to  the  11th  day  of  June,  the 
following  siuns,  viz: 

For  the  Artny $1,737,950  49 

"    <'    Navy 100,748  49 

1,838,698  98 
Outstanding  allowances  not  yet  presented  at  the  Treasury;  will 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  ^ 

add  $100,000  to  this  sum.  (Appendix  F.)  On  the  firstof  July, 
we  will  be  required  to  raise  $1,800,000  to  pay  our  troops  now  in 
the  field. 

Besides  all  these  difficulties  to  encounter  and  overcome,  the 
Executive,  bv  law  and  by  ordinances  of  the  Convention,  has 
been  compelled  to  provide  the  means  necessary  to  meet  the  ex- 
penditures incident  to  such  important  movements  and  to  the  ex- 
ertion of  such  extraordiuary  power.  At  the  time  when  the  ordi- 
nance of  secession  was  passed,  there  was  in  the  treasury  to  the 
credit  of  the  commonwealth,  the  sum  of  $384,005  25,  and  from 
that  period  to  this,  the  entire  amount  received  from  the  revenue 
of  the  State  is  about  $321,(31 7  75,  making  ^706,223  to  meet  the 
ordinary  expenses  of  government  and  the  extraordinary  expenses 
of  the  war.  The  actual  sum  expended  for  the  war  alone,  has 
been  nearly  two  millions,  and  the  sum  necessary  to  meet  the 
liabilities  incurred,  and  not  yet  presented  for  payment,  will  be 
nearly  two  millions  of  dollars  additional. 

To  meet  these  expenditures,  the  General  Assembly  had  au- 
thorized the  issuing  of  treasury  notes  to  the  amount  of  one  mil- 
lion of  dollars.  For  this  purpose  the  Auditor  of  Public  Accounts 
had  made  arrangements  to  have  the  treasury  notes  engraved  at 
the  North,  but  when  the  plates  were  ready  for  delivery,  they  were 
seized  by  the  (jJovernment  of  tlie  United  States.  This  occa- 
sioned delay  in  the  execution  of  the  notes  and  rendered  it  neces- 
sary to  contract  for  engraving  new  plates  here,  in  the  city  of 
Richmond,  which  could  not  be  executed  until  within  a  few  days 
past. 

Subsequently  the  Convention  authorized  the  issue  of  two  mil- 
lions more  of  treasury  notes,  and  both  the  law  of  the  Legisla- 
ture and  the  ordinance  of  the  Convention  authorized  the  banks 
to  receive  these  notes  and  to  discount  upon  them. 

Under  this  authority  there  has  been  raised  from  the  banks, 
by  giving  temporary  notes,  payable  in  July,  the  amount  of 
§>l,854,500,  which,  with  the  amount  in  the  treasur)-,  has  real- 
ized the  sum  of  $2,500,723  and  the  government  has  been  able 
to  meet  every  engagement  of  the  Counnonwealth,  so  far,  with 
the  currency  of  the  State,  promptly.  No  creditor  having  to  wait 
longer  than  necessary  to  audit  and  settle  his  accounts. 

A  suuunary  of  the  operations  of  the  Executive  Department 
siure  the  ISth  of  April,  1801,  shows  the  following  results  : 

1 .  The  Navy  Yard  and  Harper's  P^erry  arsenal,  cajitured  with- 
out the  loss  of  a  single  life,  and  securing  to  the  State  pro- 
perly, estimated  in  its  intrinsic  value,  at  from  $25,000,000  to 
$;,3(»',(M>0,000. 

2.  Upwards  of  40,000  volunteers  have  been  drawn  from  their 
peaceful  pursuits,  and  some  of  them  from  the  most  distant  parts 
of  the  State — have  beeu  instructed  in  the  most  elementary  ex- 


8  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

ercises  of  the  soldier  ;  have  been  armed,  equipped  and  supplied 
with  evorv'  necessan'^  for  active  service  in  the  field,  and  are  now 
ready  to  defend  the  honor  and  maintain  the  liberties  of  the 
Stale. 

.3.  A  navy  department,  hitherto  unknown  to  our  State  or- 
ganization, has  been  thoroughly  and  elfectively  organized.  Na- 
vy batteries,  numbering  upwards  of  320  pieces,  and  heavy  ord- 
nance, varying  in  weight  from  5,000  to  10,000  pounds,  have 
been  established,  the  gun-carriages  for  the  most  part  made,  and 
the  anmnuiition  prepared,  while  upwards  of  120  ))ieccs  of  heavy 
ordnance  have  been  forwarded  to  other  States  of  the  Southern 
Confederacy. 

4.  The  various  staff  corps,  embracing  commissarv,  qnarter- 
niaster,  medical  and  engineer  departments,  have  been  organized 
under  ordinances  passed  since  the  20th  April,  ISGl ,  and  their 
ciiiciency  has  not  only  contributed  to  the  promj)tness  and  com- 
jileteness  of  the  preparation  which  has  enabietl  us  to  put  so  large 
a  f(trce  from  our  own  State  into  the  field,  but  to  ficilitate  the 
movements  and  elilcieiicy  of  most  of  those  who  have  come  to 
our  aid  from  the  other  States  of  the  Confederacy. 

5.  And,  finally,  these  results  have  been  reached  in  due  regard 
to  an  economical  expendituie  of  the  public  money.  The  stores 
and  other  property,  purchased  for  the  military  operations,  have 
been  paid  for,  as  they  were  liought,  and  thus  tlie  credit  of  the 
Slate  has  been  fully  sustained. 

It  is  due  to  truth  and  justice  that  I  should  here  record,  in  this 
recapitulation,  my  high  appreciation  of  the  industry,  judgment 
and  professional  skill  which  have  marked  the  conduct  of  the 
distinguished  oflicer  who  has  been  called  by  me,  with  the  unani- 
mous ajiproval  of  the  Convention,  to  conduct  the  military  and 
na\al  operations  of  A'irginia. 

From  every  principle  of  duty  and  patriotism,  the  executive 
department  of  the  State  has  felt  called  upon  to  cooperate  cor- 
dially and  heartily  with  the  government  of  the  Confederate 
Slates,  and  the  ])olicy  which  has  controlled  my  action  heretofore, 
will  continue  to  regulate  it.  The  great  interests  at  stake  demand 
the  s\irrender  of  all  questions  of  a  subordinate  character,  in  a 
vigorous  and  united  ellort  to  maintain  the  conunon  rights  of  the 
South.  Nothing  will  l)e  left  undone  to  advance  the  interests  of 
all,  and  the  candor,  frankness  and  sincerity  which  have  been 
cxbibiied  by  ilie  President,  assure  me  that  harmony  and  concert 
of  action  will  be  the  result.  lie  duly  appreciates  the  importance 
of  the  occasion,  and  his  courage,  prudence  and  military  expe- 
rience M'ill  exert  a  salutary  infbience  in  directing  and  controlling 
the  military  movements,  now  in  progress  for  tlie  protection  of 
Virginia  and  the  South. 

And  finally,  I  communicate  herewith;  orders  issued  to  Gene- 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  § 

rals  Carson,  Taliaferro  and  Haymond,  and  also  a  letter  acknow- 
ledging the  receipt  of  General  Harper's  report  of  operations  at 
Harper's  P^erry.  General  Harper  was  placed  in  charge  of  the 
expedition  against  Harper's  Ferry,  and  I  regret  that  the  orders 
given  to  him,  on  the  17th  day  of  April  last,  have  been  mislaid. 
These  orders  show  that  I  acted  with  the  promptness  and  decision 
due  to  the  occasion.  General  Harper's  report  will  be  found  with 
these  orders.     (Appendix  G.) 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


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ISSUES  FROM  RICHMOND  ARMORY 

Frotn  April  1st  to  June,  13th,  1661. 


Captain  Wyatt  M.  Elliott — 1st  Regimerit  Virginia. 

100  Cartridge  Boxes, 
60  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
30  Cap  Boxes, 
10  Rifle  Muskets, 
10  Sets  Accoutrements,  complete, 
10  Cartridge  Boxes, 
10  Cap  Pouches, 
2,000  Cartridges. 

Captain  D.  Dodson — 39/^  Regiment  Virginia, 

75  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
1,000  Cartridges, 
1,200  Caps. 

Captain  Wm.  H.  Jarvis — 39;A  Regiment, 

70  Cartridge  Boxes, 
70  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
70  Cap  Boxes, 
70  Sets  Plates, 
300  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  J.  P.  May — 39^A  Regiment. 

4  Cartridge  Boxes, 
4  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
4  Cap  Pouches, 
4  Sets  Plates, 
20  Yards  Webbing. 


12  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

Captain  R.  D.  Baskerville — 9S/A  Regiment, 

50  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
50  (.'artridge  Boxes, 
50  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
60  Cap  Pouches, 
50  Sets  Plates, 
260  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  Bukeley — Per  J.  R.  Anderson. 
45  Flint  Muskets. 

Captain  J.  G.  Griswold. 

55  Altered  Muskets, 
55  Cartridge  Boxes, 
bo  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
55  Cap  Pouches, 
55  Plates, 
300  Yards  Webbing, 
4  Hall  Carbines. 

To  Colt's  Armory. 

150  Colt's  Rifles, 
70  Colt's  Carbines. 

Captain  J.  Q.  Nadexbouscii — Martinshurg, 

80  Rifle  Muskets, 

80  Cartridge  Boxes, 

80  Bayonet  Scabbards, 

80  Cap  Boxes, 

60  Sets  Plates, 
450  Yards  Webbing, 
1,000  Cartridges, 
1,200  Caps. 

Captain  J.  C.  Luck — Pittsylvania  County. 

1  Rifle  and  Equipment, 
50  Breast  Plates, 
yO  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  R.  O.  Hammond — Sussex. 

50  Cartridge  Boxes, 
00  Bayonet  Scabbards, 


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50  Cap  Pouches, 

50  Sets  Plates, 
300  Yards  Webbing, 
600  Cartridges, 
1,000  Caps. 

Captain  W.  T.  J ones^  Gloucester. 

1,000  Catridges, 
1,200  Caps. 

Captain  J.  S.  LxsGHORSE—Lyjichburg. 

60  Cartridge  Boxes, 

60  Bayonet  Scabbards, 

60  Cap  Pouches, 

60  Sets  Plates, 
300  Yards  Webbing, 
600  Cartridges, 
1,000  Caps, 
200  Flint  Muskets, 
200  Sets  of  Accoutrements,  complete, 

60  Saddle  Holsters, 

60  Carbine  Slings, 

27  Harper's  Ferry  Rifles, 

27  Cap  Pouches, 

40  Cavalry  Sabres, 

40  Belts  and  Plates. 

Captain  Drake. 

60  Whitney's  Pistols, 
50  Waist  Holsters, 
500  Cartridges  and  Caps. 

J.  B.  Williams, 

600  Cartridges, 
700  Caps. 

Captain  Archer — Richmond  Home  Guard. 
40  United  States  Flint  Muskets, 

Colonel  W.  Baylor — Stauntoji, 

1,.500  Cartridges, 
2,000  Caps. 


14  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

Major  J.  Croprew — Norfolk, 

25  Altered  Muskets, 
25  Sets  of  Accoutrements, 
70  (3  ]>ouuder  fixed  shot, 
28  6  pounder  Canister. 

Captain  \V.  13.  Bali- — Chesterfield. 

8  Cavalry  Sabres  and  Belts, 
8  Whitney's  Pistols  and  Equipments. 
58  Waist  Holsters. 

W.  E.  Taylor. 

600  Cartridges, 
700  Caps. 

Captain  A.  Koixer — Augusta. 

60  Cartridge  Boxes, 
60  Cap  Pouches, 
50  Sets  Plates, 
300  Yards  Webbing. 

L.  T.  Moore — Winchester, 

2,000  Cartridges, 
2,000  Caps. 

Captain  Doyle. 

60  Cartridc:e  Boxes, 
300  Yards  Webbing. 

J.  G.  Imboden, 

28  6  Pounder  Shot, 
28    <<       ''  Canister, 
70     "       <'  Shot, 
28    <'      "  Canister. 

Captain  R.  M.  Cary — \st  Regimeiii, 

53  Rifle  Muskets, 
63  Cartridge  Boxe.s, 
53  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
63  Setts  Plates, 
300  Yards  Webbing. 


[Doc.  Ko.  35.] 

Wm.  Haymes — Halifax. 
600  Cartridges, 
700  Caps. 

John  A.  Hexley. 

600  Cartridges, 
700  Caps. 

Captain  S.  Garlaxd,  Jr. — L/ytichhurg . 

20  Altered  Muskets, 
20  Cartridge  Boxes, 
20  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
20  Cap  Pouches, 
20  Sets  Plates, 
120  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  Cabell — Richmond. 
1,000  Cartridges. 

Colonel  M.  McKennie— C/tar/o^/e^uiV/e. 

2.000  Cartridges, 
2,500  Caps. 

Captain  R.  O.  Whitehead. 

50  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
50  Cartridge  Boxes, 
50  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
.50  Cap  Boxes, 
50  Sets  Plates, 
300  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  O.  J.  Wise — Richmond. 

80  Cartridge  Boxes, 
80  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
80  Cap  Pouches, 
80  Sets  Plates, 
450  Yards  Webbing, 
20  Flint  Muskct5, 
20  Accoutrements, 
20  Original  Percussion  Muskets. 

R.  Connelly — Nottaway  counti/. 
1000  ( "arlridgcs. 
1200  Caps. 


16  [Doc.  Ko.  35.] 

Captain  D.  Kemper — Alexandria. 

34  Artillery  Sabres, 

34  Sabre  Holts  and  Plates, 

3  Lanyards, 
2  Prolouges, 
8  Bricoles, 

4  Haversacks, 

4  Tube  Ponclies, 

6  Sets  Artillery  Harness, 

4  Priming  Wires, 

4  Thumb-stalls. 

J.  E.  Scott. 

1000  Cartridges, 
1200  Caps. 

Captain  M.  D.  Ball — Fairfax. 

50  Sabre  Belts, 
50  Sabres. 

Captain  Drake — Winchester. 

500  Cartridges, 
600  Caps. 

Captain  B.  Garlick — New  Kent. 

2  Iron  Cannon, 
50  Flint  Muskets, 
200  Extra  Flints, 
250  Sets  Accoutrements, 
280  Yards  Webbing. 

Major  D.  A.  Weisiger — Petersburg. 
CO  Flint  Muskets, 
CO  Sets  Accoutrements, 
30  Sets  Accoutrements  Enfield  Musket. 

James  W.  Allen — Charlcstown. 

10,000  Cartridges, 
12,000  Caps. 

Captain  Vickery — Norfolk. 
2  Prolouges 
4  Priming  Wires, 
1   Worm  and  Stair. 


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[Doc.  No.  35.]  17 

Captain  R.  Taylor — Norfolk. 

25  Altered  Muskets, 
25  Sets  Accoutrements. 


Captain  Bradford. 
75  Sets  Accoutrements. 

T.  T.  Cropper — Richmond, 

4  Rifle  Cannon, 

1  Iron  Six-pounder, 
50  Flint  Rifles, 
50  Sabres,  (no  scabbards.) 

Captain  Authur — Sufolk. 

50  Altered  Muskets, 

50  Sets  Accoutrements,  complete, 

600  Cartridges, 

700  Caps. 

Captain  Watkins — Isle  of  Wight. 
50  Full  Sets  Accoutrements. 

Captain  H.  T.  Owexs — Nottoway. 
50  Full  Sets  Musket  Accoutrements. 

Colonel  P.  T.  Moore — Richmofid. 

43  Rifled  Muskets  and  Accoutrements 
200  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  John  Welsh — Madison. 

50  Cap  Pouches, 
30  Altered  Muskets, 
30  Sets  Accoutrements, 
ISO  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  II.  R.  Johnson — CujJiberland, 

60  Cap  Pouches, 
800  Cartridges, 
1000  Caps. 


18  [Boc.  Ko.  35.] 

Captain  William  J.  GreExV — Stafford. 
60  Cap  Boxes. 

Slote, 

160  United  States  Flint  Muskets. 

Captain  R.  A.  Booker — Pnnce  Edward. 

80  Sets  Accoutrements, 
400  Yards,  Webbing. 

Captain  W.  W.  Cogbill — Chesterfield. 

50  Virginia  Altered  Rifles, 
50  Sets  Accoutrements, 
2G0  Yards  Webbing, 
10  Cartridge  Boxes, 
40  Flint  Muskets, 
40  Bayonet  Scabbards. 

Captain  Walker — \lWi  Regiment,  Richmond. 

71  Cartridge  Boxes, 
71   Cap  Pouches, 
71    Sets  Plates, 
*  30  Bayonet  Scabbards, 

400  Yards  Webbing, 

4  Six-Pounder  Iron  Rifles, 
4  Cartridges  and  implements  complete, 
75  New  Cavalry  Sabres  and  Belts. 

Captain  E.  C.  Robinson — Norfolk. 

200  United  Stales  Flint  Muskets, 

250  Extra  Flints, 
5,000  Cartridges, 
0,000  Caps. 

C.  F.  Suttle — Alexandria. 

100  Flint  Muskets, 
100  Old  Cartridge  Boxes, 
40  Old  Belts, 
1,000  Cartridges  and  Caps. 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  19 

Captain  Charles  Smith — Northampton, 

4  Six-pounder  Iron  Guns, 

4  Six  pounder  Carriages  complete, 

4  Sets  Wheel  Harness, 

4,000  Cartridges, 

5,000  Caps, 

28  Fixed  Shot, 

75  Tubes, 

28  Fixed  Canister, 

2  Barrels  Powder,  and  100  six-pounder  shot, 

Colonel  J.  J.  Hodges — Portsmouth. 

90  Full  Sets  Rifle  Accoutrements, 
30  Altered  Musitets  and  ditto, 
600  Yards  Webbing. 

John  S.  Barbour — President  of  Orange  and  Alex.  Rail  Road. 

20  Altered  Muskets, 

20  Sets  Accoutrements, 

40  Whitney's  Revolvers  and  Moulds, 

40  Waist  Kolsters  Belts  and  Plates, 

700  Cartridges, 

900  Caps. 

Telegraph  Operators. 
8  Whitney's  Revolvers  and  Moulds. 

B.  B.  Douglass — King  William. 

50  New  Cavalry  Sabres, 
50  Belts  and  Plates, 

Captain  L.  H.  Dance — Henrico. 

50  Virginia  Flint  Muskets, 

50  Sets  Accoutrements, 

600  Cartridges, 

700  Caps. 

Captain  W.  H.  Etheridge — Norfolk, 

50  Fhnt  Muskets, 
600  Cartridges, 
700  Caps, 

60  Sets  Accoutrements, 


20  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

Captain  W.  H.  Gordon — Richmond. 
90  Plates. 

Captain  Charles  B.  Tebbs — Loudoun. 

40  Sets  Accoutrements, 
250  Yards  Webbing, 
1,000  Cartridges, 
1,200  Caps. 

E.  L.  Brockett — Petersburg. 

200  Flint  Muskets, 
1,000  Cartridges, 
2,000  Caps. 


50  Full  Sets  Accoutrements, 
290  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  F.  W.  Cox — Tappahannock^ 

35  Cartridge  Boxes, 

35  Cap  Pouches, 

600  Cartridges, 

700  Caps. 

Captain  A.  J.  Snyder — Tappahannock. 

50  Altered  Muskets, 

50  Sets  Accoutrements, 
290  Yards  Webbing, 
GOO  Cartridges, 
700  Caps. 

Williams,  Peters  &.  Co, 

8  Colt's  Revolvers, 

4  Moulds, 

8  Screw-Drivers. 

Captain  W.  W.  Weisiger — Chesterfield. 

100  Flint  Muskets, 
i,000  Cartridges. 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  2X 

Captain  S.  S.  Wii.uams— Woodstock, 

60  Altered  Virginia  Rifles, 
60  Sets  Accoutrements, 
300  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  W.  Robertson— ^ome  Guard,  Richmond, 

160  Virginia  Flint  Muskets, 
52  Virginia  Sabre  Blades. 

Captain  R.  S.  Archer. 
300  Flint  Mqskets. 

Captain  G.  M.  Waddill— CAar/es  City. 
35  Virginia  Flint  Muskets. 

Captain  \Vm.  H.  Dul any— Fatr/aar. 

65  Virginia  Flint  Muskets, 
65  Sets  Accoutrements; 
350  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  E.  L.  Wharton— i2icA7?io?irf. 

60  Flint  Muskets, 

50  Sets  Accoutrements, 

50  Extra  Flints. 

General  D.  Vivoo'LES— Fredericksburg, 

1,000  Virginia  Flint  Muskets, 
1,000  Extra  Flints, 
1,000  Lbs.  Lead, 
1,000  Flint  Muskets, 
1,(X)0  Extra  Flints, 
20,000  Caps, 

2  24  Pounder  Howitzers  <fc  Carriages,  complete, 

2  *'        Caissons,  " 

2  Haversacks, 

2  Tube  Pouches, 

2  Port-fire  Cases, 

2  Priming  Wires, 

2  Gunner's  Gimlets, 

2  Briscoles, 

2  Powder  Flasks, 


22  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

199  Friction  Primers, 

25  Yards  Slow  Match, 

19  I^ort-fires, 

3  Lanyards, 

3  Fuze  Cutters, 

125  Priming  Tubes, 

96  24  Pounder  Spherical  Case, 

64  ''        "       Shell, 
24    'f         "      Canister. 

Captain  B.  F.  Hudgins — Elizabeth  City. 

50  Flint  Muskets, 

50  Sets  Accoutrements, 

50  Extra  Flints. 

Colonel  George  A.  Baily — list  Regiment. 

50  United  States  Flint  Muskets, 
50  Sets  Accoutrements, 
60  Extra  Flints. 

Captain  R.  W.  Poore — Fluvan?ia. 

34  Virginia  Flint  Muskets, 
34  Sets  Accoutrements, 
34  Extra  Flints. 

W.  S.  J  DYNES — President  Richmond  S^  Petersburg  Rail  Road, 

100  Virginia  Flint  Muskets, 
100  Extra  Flints. 

G.  T.  Pace — Mayor  of  Danville. 

100  Flint  Muskets, 
100  Extra  Fhnts. 

Captain  William  Collins — Halifax, 

60  Cavalry  Sabres, 
60  Belts  and  Plates. 

Captain  Rogers — Alexandria. 

2  Brass  six-pounder  Field  Guns, 

2  Six-pounder  Carriages  complete, 

2  Thumb-stalls, 

2  Priming  Wires, 

I  Caisson  Wagon  complete. 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  23 

Captain  O.K.  Mallory — Elizabeth  City, 
12  Cavalry  Sabres  and  Belts. 

Captain  J.  Q,.  Marr — Fauquier. 

30  Harper's  Ferry  Rifles, 
30  Full  Sets  Accoutrements. 

Captain  Young — Mount  Vernon  Guards. 

60  Cartridge  Boxes, 
60  Cap  Pouches, 
50  Sets  Plates, 
300  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  Latham — Lynchburg  Artillery. 

04  New  Cavalry  Sabres, 
94  Belts  and  Plates, 

4  Sets  Artillery  Harness, 

4  Prolougcs, 

8  Thumb  Stalls, 

8  Bricoles, 

4  Tube  Pouches, 

1  Port- fire  Case, 

4  Water  Buckets, 

4  Six-pounder  Brass  Cannon. 

Captain  W.  H.  Gordon — Richmond. 

25  Altered  Muskets, 

25  Full  Sets  Accoutrements, 

90  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  H.  W.  Murray— Z/Ouwa. 
80  Bayonet  Scabbards. 

Captain  IlhIgg^ Montgomery. 

84  Altered  mufkets, 
43  Bayonet  Sr'abbards, 
10  Cartridge  Boxes, 
84  Sets  I'latos, 
45  Yards  Webbing, 
25  Cartridge  Boxes. 


54  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

Captain  Jaimes  As.  Walker — Pulaski. 

78  Altered  Muskets, 
10  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
78  Cap  Pouches, 
20  Sets  Plates, 
90  Yards  Webbing, 
IG  Cartridge  Boxes. 

Captain  R.  S.  Duke — Albemarle  County. 

70  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
10  Cap  Pouches. 

Captain  A.  G.  Pendleton — Sinythe. 

14  Altered  Muskets, 
14  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
14  Cap  Pouches, 
14  Sets  Plates, 
90  Yards  Webbing. 

Messrs.  Phlegar — Haminett  and  Taylor. 

84  Flint  Muskets, 
100  Flints. 


Captain  P.  R.  Page — Gloucester. 

S  Original  Percussion  Muskets, 

5  Cap  Pouclies, 

6  Cartridge  Boxes  and  Belts, 
6  Bayonet  Scabbards, 

5  Sets  Plates  and  Belts, 

Captain  Lay — Powhatan. 

/>  Cavalry  Sabres  and  Belts, 
9  Adams'  Pistols  and  Holsters, 
Gl  Cap  pouches, 
1  Pair  Holsters. 

Officers  Virginia  Navy. 

6  Whitney's  Revolvers  and  Holstersj 
6  Waist  Belts  and  Holsters. 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  25 

Captain  J.  F.  Kent — Wythe. 

12  Altered  Muskets, 
12  Cartridge  Boxes, 
12  Ba_yonet  Scabbards, 
12  Cap  Pouches, 
14  Sets  Plates, 
90  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  J.  W.  Atkinson — Henrico. 

33  Altered  Muskets, 
33  Cap  Boxes, 

33  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
33  Cartridge  Boxes, 
33  Sets  Plates, 
ISO  Yards  Webbing. 

Colonel  Wm.  G.  Pollard — Ki?ig  William. 

50  Flint  Muskets, 
50  Cartridge  Boxes, 
50  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
50  Sets  Plates, 
288  Yards  Webbing, 

Captain  Boykin —  Western  Virginia. 

200  English  Flint  Muskets, 
200  Extra  Flints. 

Colonel  John  McCausland — Puttiam  County. 

500  English  Flint  Muskets, 
600  Extra  Flints, 
4  Six-pounder  Iron  Guns, 
8  Axle  Boxes  for  do. 
56  Six-pounder  Shot, 
42  Six-pounder  Spherical  Case, 
14  Six- pounder  Canister, 
10,000  Cartridges. 

Captain  John  Fife — Putnam. 

60  Altered  Muskets, 
60  Cartridge  Boxes, 
50  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
50  Cap  Pouches, 
60  Sets  Plates, 
280  Yards  Webbing. 


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26  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

S.  C.  Robinson — Richmond. 
750  Flint  Muskets,  (to  be  altered  to  percussion.) 

Captain  Peyton — Richmond. 
4  Six- pounder  Iron  Cannon. 

Colonel  O.  S.  Taylor — Alexandria. 
200  Flint  MusketS;  with  extra  flints. 

Captain  S.  H.  Leto-her — Harper's  Ferry. 

80  Cartridge  Boxes, 

80  Cap  Pouclies, 

25  Waist  Plates, 

90  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  F.  C.  Ciioate — Portsmouth. 

25  Altered  Muskets, 

25  Cartridge  Boxes, 

25  Bayonet  Scabbards, 

25  Cap  Pouches, 

25  Sets  Plates, 

1  SO  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  E.  S.  Blamire — Portsmouth, 

80  Flint  Muskets, 
80  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
SO  Sets  Plates, 
360  Yards  Webbing, 
80  Cartridge  Boxes. 

Steamer  Yoi'ktown. 

30  Flint  Muskets, 
30  Old  Sabres. 

Captain  S.  S.  Weisioer — Amelia. 

6  New  Sabres, 

0  Belts  and  Plates, 

20  Adams'  Revolvers, 

20  Holsters, 

7  Extra  Waist  Plates. 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  27 

Captain  J.  R.  Tucker — Richmond. 
2  Eight-inch  Guns,  (Navy  Department.) 

Captain  W.  F.  Ly^cu— Potomac  River. 
2  Eight-inch  Guns,  (Navy  Department.) 

Captain  P.  N.  Hale — Grayson. 

80  Harper's  Ferry  Rifles  with  sword  Bayonets, 

80  Cartridge  Boxes, 
100  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
100  Cap  Pouches, 
100  Waist  BeUs  and  Frogs, 
100  Waist  Plates, 

90  Yards  Webbing, 

10  Harper's  Ferry  Rifles, 

10  Cartridge  Boxes, 
Webbing. 

Mr.  Pannell — Petersburg. 

20  Cavalry  Sabres  and  Belts, 
20  Cavalry  Pistols. 

Colonel  C.  E.  Tompkins — Kanawha. 

400  Pounds  Lead, 

40  Harper's  Ferry  Rifles, 

40  Cap  Pouches, 

80  Hall's  Carbines, 

80  Carbine  Slings, 
120  Waist  Plates, 

80  Cartridge  Boxes, 
120  Powder  Flasks, 

90  Pouches  and  Belts, 
400  Flints, 

5  Whitney's  Revolvers, 

10  Harper's  Ferry  Rifles, 

30  Altered  Rifles, 

70  United  States  Flint  Rifles, 
100  Extra  Fhnts. 

Captain  J.  W.  CooK—Bcllfield. 
4  Six-Pounder  Iron  Guns, 


28  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

James  D.  Brown. 
4  Boxes  Muskets — 80. 

Captain  Spencer — Charlotte  Court-House. 

IG  Cartridge  Boxes, 

68  Cap  Pouches, 

68  Belts  and  Frogs  for  Sword-Bayonets, 

10  Plates. 

Captain  W.  P.  Wilson — Norfolk. 

30  United  States  Cavalry  Sabres, 
30  United  Suites  Belts  and  Plates. 


General  Johnston. 

3  Whitney's  Pistols, 
3  Bullet  Moulds, 
3  Holsters. 

Captain  F.  J.  Boggs — Richmond. 
63  Original  Percussion  Muskets. 

Captain  Henry  D.  Dickinson — OldlDominion  Guard, 

21  Original  Percussion  Muskets, 

2  Cartridge  Boxes, 
51  Cap  Pouches, 
51  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
90  Yards  Webbing. 

Dr.  R.  L.  Nicholson — Middlesex. 
100  Flint  Muskets,  with  extra  flints. 

David  Edmondson, . 


1  Altered  Musket, 
1  Cartridge  Box, 
1   Cap  Pouch, 

3  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
6  Wipers, 

6  Breast  Plates, 
12  Screw- Drivers, 

4  Waist  Plates. 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  29 

Camp  Hermitage — Colonel  Gilham. 

40  Harper's  Ferry  Rifles, 

101  Original  Percussion  Muskets, 

774  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 

274  Flint  Muskets, 
10,000  Musket  Cartridges, 
3,000  Rifle  Cartridges, 

500  Percussion  Muskets, 

500  Bayonet  Scabbards, 

250  Cartridge  Boxes, 
1,000   Yards  Webbing, 

375  Cartridge  Boxes, 

400  Cap  Pouches. 

Camp  Ashland — Colonel  Ewell. 

31  Harper's  Ferry  Rifles, 
108  Original  Percussion  Muskets, 
33,000  Musket  and  Rifle  Cartridges. 

Camp  Mercer — Colonel  D.  Ruggles. 

2,000  Flint  Muskets, 
38,000  Musket  and  Rifle  Cartridges, 
500  Cartridge  Boxes, 
1,000  Percussion  Muskets, 
20,000  Caps, 
20,000  Cartridges, 

300  Pounds  Blasting  Powder, 
400  Pounds  Cannon  Powder, 
800  Pounds  Lead, 

4  Six-jioundcr  Brass  Guns, 

4  Six-pounder  Gun  Carriages, 

8  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

8  Hand  Spikes, 

4  Lint  Stocks, 

4  Port- fire  Stocks, 

4  Gunner's  Gimblets, 

4  Haversacks, 

4  Priming  Wires, 

4  Port- fire  Cases, 

4  Thumb  Stalls, 

4  Tube  Pouches, 

6  Water  Buckets, 

4  Sponge  Buckets, 

6  Tar  Buckets, 


30  .  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

4  Caissons, 
66  Fixed  Shot, 
14  Canister, 
42  Spherical  Cases. 

Alexandria— Cohnel  P.  St.  Geo.  Cocke. 

4  Rifle  Cannnn,  complete, 
3,200  Fhnt  Mnsl>ets, 

400  Rounds  for  Riflnd  Cannon, 

120  Rounds  for  .Six-pounder  Cannon, 
92,600  Musket  and  Rifle  Catridges, 

500  Orig.  Percussion  Muskets,! 

500  Flint  Lock  Muskets,  lr„inr.>^^r  r   u 

20,000  Cartridges,  ^Culpeper,  C.  H., 

11,000  Caps.  J 

Lynchburg — Colonel  D.  H.  Langhorne. 
200  Flint  Muskets, 

To  Mayor  of  Danville, 
XOO  Flint  Muskets. 

To  Mayor  of  Petersburg. 
200  Flint  Muskets. 

Fort  Pou-hatan— Colonel  John  R.  Wilson. 

350  Flint  Muskets, 
18,000  Musket  Cartridges. 

Williamsburg — Colonel  B.  S.  Ewell. 

250  Flint  Muskets, 
8,000  Musket  Cartridges, 

400  Original  Percussion  Muskets, 
5,000  Rounds  Ammunition. 

Norfolk — Colonel  Walter  Gwynn. 

4  Rifle  Cannon,  complete, 
100  Harper's  Ferry  Riiies  with  sword  Bayonets, 
1,000  Altered  Muskets, 
1,530  Flint  Muskets, 
30  Cavalry  Subres, 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  31 

200  Rounds  for  Rifled  Cannon, 
77,000  Musket  and  Rifle  Cartridges, 

COO  Cap  Pouches, 
1,000  Waist  Belts, 

660  Breast  Bolts, 
4,000  Yards  Webbing. 

Camp  Jcffersoji,  Charlottesville — Colonel  Wm.  H.  FuY. 

74  Altered  Muskets, 
6,000  Musket  Cartridges. 

Staunton — M.  J.  Harman. 

100  Virginia  Altered  Percussion  Rifles, 
600  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
6,000  Musket  Cartridges. 

Lceshurg — General  Eppa  Hunton. 

320  Original  Percussion  Muskets, 
10,000  Musket  Cartridges, 

SO  Original  Percussion  Muskets, 
3,000  Cartridges, 
3,300  Caps, 

I  Keg  of  Powder. 

Washington  County  Volunteers — Colonel  W.  E.  JohxsoJ/. 

500  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
6,000  Musket  Cartridges. 

Ilarpcr'^s  Ferry — Colonel  Jackson. 

2,000  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 

2  Twelve-pounder  Field  Howit25crs,7  n^^c 
6  Six  pnunder  Guns,  ji"  ' 

210  Rounds  for  Howitzer, 
620  Rounds  for  Six  poiiiider, 
78,000  Musket  and  Rifle  Cartridges. 

Western  Virginia — Colonel  Boykin. 
200  Flint  Muskets. 

Kanawha  r«//ry— Colonel  C.  Q,.  Tompkins,  Commanding. 

cO  Harper's  Ferry  Rifles, 
30  Altered  Percussion  Rides, 


32  [Doc;  Ko.  3o.] 

70  Flint  Rifles, 
80  Hall's  Carbines, 
600  Flint  Mnskots, 

5  Whitney's  Revolvers, 
50  Altered  Percussion  ^luskets, 
4  Six-pounder  Iron  Cannon,  (without  carriage 
or  implements,) 
10,000  Musket  and  Rifle  Cartridges, 

110  Rounds  Fixed  Ammunition  for  Six-pounders. 

W.  S.  JoYNEs — President  Petersburg  Rail  Road. 
100  Flint  Muskets. 

Captain  W.  Collixs — Halifax  Court  House. 
60  Cavalry  Sabres  and  Belts. 

Captain  Rogers — Alexandria. 

2  SixpouHder  Brass  Guns,  complete, 
1  Caisson  Wagon. 

Captain  Latham — Lynchburg  Artillery. 

94  Cavalry  Sabres  and  Belts, 

4  Water  iiuckets, 

8  Tar  Buckets, 

1  Priming  Wire, 

225  Six-poiuider  Shot, 

180  Ditto  Spherical  Case, 

45  Canister, 

630  Friction  Tubes, 

4  Lanyards, 

18  Yards  Slow  Match, 

27  Port-fn-eSj 

4  Fuze  Cutters, 

4  Caissons, 

4  Sets  Artillery  Harness,  complete, 

4  Saddles, 

4  Bridles, 

4  Sponge  Buckets, 

4  Tin  Buckets. 

Captain  Tuigg — Montgomery  County. 
84  Altered  Muskets  and  Equipments. 


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Captain  James  A.  Walker — Pulaski  County. 
78  Altered  Muskets  and  Equipments. 

Captain  J.  S.  Langhorne — Lynchburg. 
40  Cavalry  Sabres  and  Belts. 

Captain  J.  W.  Atkinson — Henrico  County, 
83  Altered  muskets  and  Equipments, 

Colonel  Charles  Smith — Northampton. 

4  Iron  Six-pnnnder  Field  Guns,  (with  carriages 
and  implements  complete,) 
100  Rounds  Fixed  Ammunition. 

B.  B.  Douglas — Ki7ig  William  County. 
50  Cavalry  Sabres. 

Captain  A.  J.  Sydnor — Tappahannock. 

50  Altered  Muskets, 
600  Cartridges  and  Caps. 

Captain  W.  W.  Weisiger — Manchester. 
100  Flint  Muskets. 

Captain  S.  S.  Williams — Woodstock. 
60  Virginia  Altered  Rifles. 

Home  Guard — Richmond. 
160  Flint  Muskets. 

Captain  R.  S.  Archer — Richmond. 
300  Flint  Muskets. 

Captain  E.  L.  Wharton — Richmond  County, 

60  Flint  Muskets, 
1,000  Cartridges. 
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34  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

Captain  P.  N.  Hale — Grayson  County. 

90  Harper's  Ferry  Rifles,  withS  word  Bayonets  and 
Equipments, 
3,500  Cartridges  and  Caps. 

J.  W.  Cook— Bell/icld. 
4  Six-pounder  Iron  Guns,  to  he  mounted. 

Captain  F.  J.  Boggs — Rkhmoyid. 
G3  Original  Percussion  jMuskets  and  Equipments. 

Colonel  W.  T.  Jones — Gloucester  County. 

60  Flint  Muskets, 

20  Original  Percussion  Muskets  aild  Equipments. 
7,800  Cartridges  and  Caps. 

Captain  Latham — Lynchburg  Artillery. 

4  Six-poundcr  Brass  Guns,  complete, 

4  Sets  Artillery  Harness, 
200  Rounds  Six-pounder  Guns. 

Captain  Kemper — Culpepcr  Court  House. 

5  Sets  Artillery  Harness, 
2  Prolouges, 
4  Haversacks, 
8  Bricoles, 
4  Tube  i^uches, 
4  I^riining  Wires, 
4  Thumb  Stalls, 

200  Rounds  Fixed  Ammunition. 

Colonel  W.  G.  Pollard— 7u«o-   William  County. 

50  Flint  Muskets  and  Equipments.  1 

Captain  Peyton — Richmond. 
4  Six-pounder  Brass  Guns,  to  be  mounted. 

T.  C.  Jordan — Bedford  County. 

4  Six-pounder  Iron  Guns,  to  be  mounted. 


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L.  S.  Marye — Richmond. 
4  Six-pounder  Brass  Guns,  to  be  mounted, 

Captain  H.  C.  Cabell — Richmond, 

4  Caisson  Wagons, 
8  Sets  Artillery  Harness, 
320  Rounds  Fixed  Ammunition. 

To  Steamer  Yorkiown. 

30  Flint  Muskets, 
30  Old  Swords, 
1,000  Cartridges. 

Captain  S.  S.  Weisiger— ^me/ia  Court  House, 

6  Cavalry  Sabres  and  Belts, 
20  Revolvers  and  Holsters. 

Captain  Henry  D.  Dickinson. 

51  Original  Percussion  Muskets  and  Equipments. 
2,600  Cartridges  and  Caps. 

Dr.  R.  L.  Nicholson— MW/ese^  County. 

100  Flint  Muskets, 
5,000  Cartridges. 

Captain  T.  P.  Mathews— Richmond, 

69  Flint  Muskets, 
2,000  Cartridges. 

Captain  W.  H.  Biggs — Jamestown, 

30  Original  Percussion  Muskets, 
1,000  Cartridges  for  Muskets. 

Major  W.  W.Townes — Petersburg,  Va. 
10  Original  Percussion  Muskets. 

Captain  Garxett — Westmoreland  Cou7ity,  Va. 
64  Cavalry  Sabres  and  Belts. 


36  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

John  M.  Gibbs,  Esq. 
10  Pounds  Cannon  Powder. 

Captain  A.  Lybrock — Richmond. 

74  Harper's  Ferry  Rifles,  with  Sword  Bayonets,, 
74  Waist  Belts. 

Captain  Tabd — York  River j  Va.. 
33  Hall's  Carbines. 

Colonel  Terrett — Alexandria. 

1  Keg  Blasting  Powder, 
300  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
2i,000  Cartridges  for  Muskets. 

Colonel  J.  E.  B.  Stuart— iiTar^er'*  Ferry ,   Va, 

10  Swords, 
T,600  Cartridges. 

Colonel  J.  A.  Early — Lynchburg,  Va, 

1,000  Original  Percussion  Muskets, 
1,000  Altered  ^^  " 

1,000  Flint-lock  " 

60,000  Cartridges  for  '^ 

Lieut.  Col.  John  McCausland — Charleston,  Kanawha,  Va. 

4  Sets  Harness, 
6,000  Cartridges. 

Colonel  D.  H.  Hill— A^.  C.  Volunteers,  Richmond. 

22,000  Cartridges, 

26  Wipers  and  Screw-Drivers, 

3  Bayonets, 

11,500  Cartridges. 

Colonel  Tom.  P.  August — Richmo7id, 

685  Yards  Webbing, 
25  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 

3  Ball  Screws, 
25  Screw-Drivers, 
25  Wipers, 
20,400  Percussion  Musket  Cartridges, 
7,440  Rille  Cartridges. 


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Captain  Shields — Howitzer  Battery. 

8  Priming  Wires, 

4  Lint  Stocks, 

4  Port-fire  Stocks, 

2  Port- fire  Cases, 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

4  Handspikes, 

1  Tar  Bucket, 

4  Sponge  linckets, 

1  Prolouge, 

8  (liunner's  Gimlets, 

2  Tube  Pouches. 

Captain  J.  C.  Harwood — Jamestown,  Va. 

12  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 

90  Yards  Webbing, 

12  Bayonet  Scabbards, 

1,000  Musket  Cartridges. 

Colonel  E.  K.  Smith — Blississijjpi  Volunteers,  RicJmiond. 

11  Harper's  Ferry  Rifles, 
2  Altered  Percussion  Muskets. 

Colonel  S.  Garland — Manassas  Junctmi,  Va, 

2  Kegs  Cannon  Powder, 
4,600  Rifle  Cartridges, 
2,000  Pistol  Cartridges. 

Colonel  DeRussy — Yorktown,  Va. 

15,000  Musket  Cartridges, 
6,000  Rifle  Cartridges. 

General  Boniiam,  S.  Carolina  Volunteers — Manassas  June.  Va. 

400  Original  Percussion  Muskets, 
10,000  Cartridges  for  Muskets, 
15,000  Cartridges  Cal.  69. 

Colonel  Wm.  B.  Bate — Old  Fair  Grounds,  Richmond. 

40  Rifle  Muskets, 
1,600  Cartridges  for  ditto. 


38  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

Captain  Hays — Moorcfieldy  Hardy  County. 

109  Virginia  Rifles, 
1  Keg  Powder, 
4  Bars  Lead. 

Captain  Wm.  J.  Hoke — Yorktowny  Va. 
11,420  Rifle  and  Musket  Cartridges. 

Captain  L.  L.  Lomax,  for  Colonel  Chilton — Ashland. 

30  Cavalry  Sabres, 
52  Sabre  IBelts  and  Plates, 
47  Artillery  Sabres, 
07  Artillery  Belts  and  Plates, 
93  Sharp's  Rifles, 
4G  Cavalry  Musketoons, 
72  Cav^alry  Revolvers,  ('extra  stocks,) 
43  Navy  Revolvers  (Adams',) 
20  Cavalry  Flnit  Pistols, 
10,000  Cavalry  Pistol  Cartridges, 
10,550  xMusketoon  and  Rifle  Cartridges. 

Lieut.  Henderson — Richmond. 
250  Cartridges. 

Colonel  W.  E.  Jones — Abingdon^  Va. 

2,500  Cartridges, 
2,500  Cartridge's , 
113  Cavalry  Sabres, 
113  Cavalry  Belts, 
50  Waist  Plates, 
120  Flint  Pistols, 
300  Extra  Flints, 
46  Pair  Saddle  Holsters. 

Colonel  P.  T.  Moore — Richmond. 
18,000  Cartridges. 

Major  Randolph — Hoicitzer  Battery,  Richmond, 

24  Canister,  (Navy  Howitzer,) 

120  Spherical  Case  do. 

70  Shell  do. 

270  Friction  Tubes, 

145  Rifled  Howitzer  Shot  (fixed,) 

105  Friction  Tubes, 

b  Sets  Artillery  Harness  (complete.) 


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Captain  Brown — Of  Howitzer  Battery. 

112  Shell, 

145  Friction  Tubes, 

1  Six-pounder  Iron  Gun,  (Rifle,) 

1  Caisson  for  same, 

2  Sets  Artillery  Harness,  (complete,) 

3  Wagon  Caissons  for  Navy  Howitzer, 

112  Rounds   Six-pounder  Ammunition  for   Iron 

Rific, 
145  Rounds  Six-pounder  Ammunition  for  Brass 

Ritic, 
120  Rounds    Twelve-pounder    Ammunition    for 
Navy  Howitzer,  (Spherical  Case,) 
70  Rounds    Twelve  ponnder    Annnunition    for 

Navy  Howitzer,  (Shell,) 
24  Rounds    Twelve- pounder    Ammunition    for 

Navy  Howitzer.  (Canister,) 
115  Charges  Powder  Six-pounder  Rifle  Gun,  Iron, 
145  Charges  Powder  Six-pounder  Rifle  Gun,  Brass, 
6S0  Friction  Primers, 
32  Yards  Slow  Match, 
20  Port-fires, 
2  Sponges  and  Rammers,  Iron  Rifle  Guns  and 

Covers, 
2  Handspikes, 
2  Haversacks, 
2  Tube  Pouches, 

1  A'ent  Punch, 

2  Thumb  Stalls, 

1  Prin)ing  Wire, 

2  Lanyards, 

1  Worm  and  Staff, 
1  Sponge  Bucket, 
1  Prolniige, 

1  Tar  Bucket, 

2  Water  Buckets, 

1  Gunner's  Pincers, 

1  Tow  Hoolc,  * 

1  Pendulum  Haussc, 

1  Gunner's  Gimlet, 

1  Fuze  Gauge, 

20  Halters, 

6  Saddles, 

Colonel  WiLLiAMs~.Vcr//i  Carolina  Volunteers* 
35,000  Cartridges. 


40  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

Captain  W.  T.  Tauafebro. 
1,000  Cartridges. 

Major  Cab  ELI, — Confederate  States  Army. 
11,000  Cartridges. 

Captain  R.  A.  Tompkixs — Richmond  Sharp  Shooters. 

39  Harper's  Ferry  Rifles  v/itli  Swnrd  Bayonets, 
30  Harper's  Ferry  liiflcs  witliout  Sword  Bayonets, 
75  Leather  Waist  Belts, 
75  Waist  Plates, 
75  Cartridge  Boxes, 
75  Cap  Poiiclies, 
39  Sword  Scabbards, 
39  Sword  Frogs. 

Captain  Frederick  J.  Boggs — Richmond. 

1/5  Original  Percussion  Muskets, 
90  Yards  Webbing. 

Lieutenant  Croswell — Accomac  County. 

60  Virginia  Flint  Muskets, 
75  Extra  Flints. 

General  WilllajvI  H.  Richardson. 

1  Original  Percussion  Mueket, 

1  Cartridge  Box, 

1  Cap  Pouch, 

1  Waist  Belt  and  Plate. 

S.  H.  DeBow — Richmond. 
So  Sheets  of  Copper, 

Colonel  J.  B.  Magruder — Yorktown,   Virginia. 

2  Twelve  Pounder  Brass  Guns, 
2  Twelve  Pounder  Carriages, 

2  Twelve  Pounder  Caissons, 


[Doc.  No.  35.] 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers^ 

4  Handspikes, 

2  Linstocks, 

2  Port-fire  Stocks, 

2  Thumb-stalls, 

2  Priming  Wires, 

2  Gunner's  Gimlets, 

2  Haversacks, 

2  Port-fire  Stocks, 

2  Tube  Pouches, 

2  Water  Buckets, 

2  Sponge  Buckets, 

2  Tar  Buckets, 


44 


Called  for  but  not 
issued. 


Captain  R.   C.  Stanard — Randolph's  Howitzers — Riclmiond. 

1  Rifle  Parrot  Gun, 

1  Carriage  complete, 

2  Sets  Four  Horse  Harness  complete 
2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

2  Handspikes, 
1  Lint  Stock, 
1  Port-fire  Stock, 
1  Port-fire  Case, 
1   Prologue, 
1  Haversack, 
1  Tube  Pourh, 
1  Thumb-stall, 
1  Gunner's  Gnrilet, 

1  Priming  Wire, 

2  Water  Buckets, 
1  Sponge  Bucket, 
1  Tar  Bucket, 

1  Caisson  complete. 
100  Rounds  Fixed  Ammunition. 


Captain  Shumaker — Richmond. 

4  Six-pounder  Brass  Guns, 

4  Six  pounder  Carriages  (complete,) 

8  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

8  Sponge  Covers, 

8  Trail  Hand  Spikes, 

4  Lint  Stocks, 

2  Womis  and  Staves, 

4  Port-Fire  Stocks, 

4  Leather  Water  Buckets, 


Called  for 
>but  not  is- 
sued. 


^  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

4  Spniif^e  Buckets, 
2  Tar  Buckets,  Called   for 

4  Prologues,  U„t  not  is- 

4  Gunner's  Gimlets,  (  sued. 

4  Priming  Wires,  I 

4  Thumb  Stalls.  J 

U 

J.  R.  Anderson  &  Co. 
20  Flint  Muskets. 

General  Boxham — Manassas  Junction. 

15,000  Cartridges, 
10,000  Caps. 

Colonel  GiLHAM — Camp  Lee. 
10,000  Cartridges. 

Captain  JoiinT.  'Ellis— Charlottesville. 

77  Flint  Muskets, 
2,500  Cartridges. 

Captain  John  A  Re  a — Charlottesville. 

60  Flint  Lock  Muskets, 
2,000  Cartridges. 

Captain  Bennett  Taylor — Charlottesville. 

60  Flint  Muskets, 

2,000  Cartridges, 

11  Flint  Muskets, 
70  Cartridge  Boxes. 

Colonel  Magruder — Yorktown. 

48  Rounds  Army  Howitzer  Spherical  Casc^ 
36  Rounds  Army  Howitzer  Shell, 

12  Rounds  Army  Howitzer  Shut, 
56  Six-pounder  Shot. 

42  Sin-pounder  Spherical  Case, 

14  Six-pounder  Canister. 

Captain  William  H.  Early — Black  Walmit  Dragoons. 

15  Sabres, 
15  Pistols. 


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Captain  Jonbs. 
4  Sabres, 

Captain  Pemberton — Norfolk. 

350  Six-pounder  Shot, 

196  Six-pounder  Spherical  Case, 

66  Six-pounder  Canister, 

60  Shell  Fuzed  and  Filled. 

Captain  Leftwich — Richmond. 

21  United  States  Rifles, 
270  Yards  Webbing, 
16  Cartridge  Boxes, 
16  Waist  Belts. 

Captain  J.  W.  Puller — Gloucester  Point. 
1,000  Pistol  Cartridges. 

Colonel  Taliaferro — Gloucester  Point. 

250  Waist  Belts, 
9,000  Cartridges. 

General  Johnson — Harper'^s  Ferry. 
100,000  Cartridges. 

Captain  R.  T.  Ellett — West  Point. 

66  Flint  Muskets, 
1,000  Cartridges, 

Captain  Hood — Ivy  Station,  N.  ^^  P.  R.  R. 

100  Flint  Muskets, 
4,000  Cartridges, 

Captain  Cunningham — Aquia  Creeks 

2,000  Cartridges, 

2,400  Caps,  n^l 


44  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

Captain  C.  S.  Smite — Yorktown. 

182  Six-pounder  Shot, 
98  Six-pouiidcr  Spherical  Case, 
20  Six-pouiider  Canister, 
.56  Twelve-pounder  Spherical  Case,, 
30  Twelve- jiounder  Shell, 
4S0  Friction  Primers, 
4  Powder  Flasks, 
6  Yards  Slow  Match, 
30  Port-fires. 

Captain  Stanard — Richmond, 
2  Barrels  Powder. 

Captain  Minor — Navy  Department, 

15  Barrels  Cannon  Powder, 
20      '*  '*  " 

30       'f  "  " 

30      '^  ''  ^' 

Mr.  Van  Pelt — Petersburg. 

1   Caisson, 

1  Box  Wagon  Harness. 

Captain  Schaffer — Manassas  Junction^ 

CO  Flint  Mnskots, 
3  Artillery  Sabres, 

GO  Cartridge  Boxes, 

60  Baynot  Scabbards, 
360  Yards  Webbing, 

60  Breast  Plates, 
00  Waist  Plates. 

General  Lee  and  Staff. 
10  Whitney's  Revolvers. 

Captain  W.  Adams — Richmond, 

9  Sabres, 
9  Pair  Pistols, 
9  Holsters, 
360  United  States  Cartridges. 


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Major  CnivTON— 'Ashland.        *> 
2,000  Pistol  Cartridges. 

Captain  VV.  R.  Aylett — Wesi  Point. 

60  Flints, 

15  Muskets  Complete, 
15  Cartridge  Boxes  aijd  Belts, 
15  Bayonet  Scabbards  and  Belts, 
15   Waist  Belts, 
60  Waist  and  Breast  Plates, 
2,500  Cartridges. 

Colonel  August — Yorktown. 

250  Cartridge  Boxes, 

250  Cap  Pouches, 

250  Waist  Plates, 

1,300  Yards  Webbing, 

1,500  Percussion  Musket  Cartridges, 

1,840  Minnie  Musket  Cartridges, 

2,400  Enfield  Musket  Cartridges, 

3,200  Harper's  Ferry  Rifle  Cartridges. 

Major  M,  G.  Harman — Staunton. 

50  Double  Barreled  Shot  Guns,] 
5,000  Caps, 
10,000  Fhnt  Cartridges, 

2  Kegs  Rifle  Powder, 
10,000  Musket  Caps. 

A.  B.  Evans — Urbanna. 

2  Iron  Six-pounder  Cannon,  not  mounted, 
Equipments,  and  56  Rounds  Ammunition. 

Captain  Fletcher — Accomac. 

60  P^lint  Muskets, 
1,000  Cartridges, 
60  FUnls. 

Captain  Rice 

4  Brass  Guns  and  Carriages,  complete. 
4Q0  Rounds  Ammunition  and  Equipments. 


46  tl^oc.  No.  35.] 

Captain  Geddy — James  City  Cavalry, 

50  Pair  Flint  Pistols, 

100  Extra  Flints, 

50  Cavalry  Sabres,  complete, 

4  Pair  Holsters, 

2  Pair  Moulds, 

20;000  Pistol  Cartridges. 

Major  Randolph — Richmond. 
2  Spare  Poles. 

Major  Cabell — Richmond. 
75,000  Cartridges. 

Colonel  D.  H.  Hill — Yorktown. 
6,000  Ball  Cartridges. 

Colonel  William  Gilham — Richmond,  Virginia, 

2,000  Pistol  Cartridges, 

2,500  Caps, 

18  Flint  Pistols, 

9  Holsters, 

9  Belts  and  Plates. 

Colonel  Pbeston. 

1,000  Pounds  Lead, 

6  Bundles  Cartridge  Paper. 

George  E.  Croswell. 

50  Double  Barrell  Guns, 
5,000  Caps. 

Hon.  William  Smith — Warrenion,  Virginia. 
1,600  Cartridges. 

General  Kirkpatric 

10,000  Musket  Caps, 
1,000  Flints. 

Captain  Salmon — Harj)cr^s  Ferry. 

50  Cartridge  Boxes, 
3,200  Cartridges. 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  47 

Colonel  J.  F.  Thomas. 

250  Sets  Belts, 

250  Belt  Plates, 

250  Cartridge  Boxes, 
5,000  Cartridges, 
5,500  Caps. 

Colonel  Doles. 

IfO  Cartridges, 
30,000  Cartridges  and  Caps, 
1,000  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  Bennett — Harper^ s  Ferry. 

50  Belt  Plates, 
50  Cartridge  Boxes,  ^ 
3,700  Cartridges, 
250  Yards  Webbing. 

General  Benjamin  Huger — Norfolk, 

15,000  Musket  Caps, 
25,000  Musket  Caps. 

Captain  Wm.  H.  "QtnGGB-^ Jamestown, 

78  Cartridge  Boxes, 
78  Belts, 
2,000  Enfield  Cartridges, 
1,000  Musket  Cartridges. 

Colonel  J.  G.  Hodges — Jamestown  Island* 

1,500  Musket  Cartridges, 

1,500  Harper's  Ferry  Rifle  Cartridges. 

Captain  Lybrock — Richmond. 

12  United  States  Percussion  Rifles, 

12  ?latc3, 

12  Y?rds  Webbing, 

12  Cartridge  Boxes, 

12  Cap  Pouches. 

Captain  CAnri^—Rectortown, 

70  Cartridge  Boxes, 
350  Yards  Webbing.       f.-wfiy. 


48  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

Captain  J.  M.  Macon — Jiichmond. 

90  Cartridge  Boxes, 
90  Plates, 
450  Yards  Webbing. 

Major  GoRGAS — Ordnance  Department. 

15,000  Musket  Cartridges  and  Caps, 
4,000  Cartridges,  (Cal.  68) 
1,000  Flint  Muskets. 

Major  Chilton. 

61   Sabres  and  Belts, 
11  Flint  Pistols. 

Captain  J.  V.  Scott— Zuni  Station  N.  ,y  P.  JR.  R. 

86  Cartridge  Boxes, 
600  Yards  Webbing. 

Colonel  Moore — Richmond. 
200  Cartridge  Boxes. 

Colonel  Cocke — Alexandria. 

400  Cartridge  Boxes, 
25,000  Flint  Cartridges, 
10,000  Caps. 

Captain  Shumaker — Richmond. 

1  Six-pounder  Rifle  Gun,  Burton's  pattern,  and 
Carriage  complete, 

3  Six- pounder  Brass  Field  Guns,  and  carriages 

complete, 

4  Six-pounder  Caissons,  complete, 
204  Rounds  Six-pnundcr  Shot  Fixed, 

234  ilounds  Six-pounder  Spherical  Case  Fixed, 
60  Rounds  Six  j)ounder  Canister, 
4  Powder  Flasks, 
4  Sets  Artillery  Harness, 
200  l^ounds  Rifle  Piece, 
40  Halters, 
6  Artillery  Sabres, 
4  Prolouges, 
"^  4  Haversacks, 


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8  Tube  Pouches, 

4  Port- fires, 

5  Thumb  Stalls, 
4  Priniin?  Wires, 

4  Chinner's  Gimlets, 
C30  Friction  Primers, 
42  Port-fires, 
60  Yards  Slow  Match, 

4  Fuze  Cutters, 
200  Primiug  Tubes, 

5  Lanyards. 

Captain  H.  A.  Herbert — Greenville  Guard. 

10  Screw  Drivers, 
45  Worms. 

Colonel  James  F.  Fagan — Fredericksburg. 
20,000  Percussion  Caps. 

Colonel  Wm.  B.  Bate — Camp  Jackson. 
25,000  Percussion  Caps. 

Lieutenant  Jones — Jamestowii. 

2  Twelve-pounder  Iron  Guns,  without  carriages, 
4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

2  Haversacks, 

IS  Boxes  Six-pounder  Shot,  fixed, 
12  Boxes  Six-pounder  Spherical  Case,  fixed, 
.3  Boxes  Six-pounder  Canister,  fixed. 
300  Friction  Primers, 

3  Lanyards, 

60  Yards  Slow  Match, 
32  Port  fires, 

2  Powder  Flasks, 

2  Port-fire  Cases, 

2  Thumb  Stalls, 

4  Priming  Wires. 

4  Gunner's  Gimlets, 
2  Fuze  Cutters. 

General  Hexry  A.  Wise — Richmond, 

2,00(»  Flint  Muskets, 
I  Box  Flints, 
50,000  Cartridges, 


[Doc.  No.  35.] 

10  Bags  Buckshot, 

2  Si  x-poundcr  Brass  Guns  and  Carriages,completej 

2  Six  ponnder  Caissons,  complete, 

2  Haversacks, 

2  Portfire  Cases, 

2  Tube  Pouches, 

4  Thumb  Stalls, 

2  Priming  Wires, 

2  Gunner's  Gimlets, 

2  Prolouges, 
8  Bricoles, 

14  Boxes  Fixed  Six-pounder  Shot, 

11  <'        <'  «'  Spherical  Case, 

3  "        <'  "  Canister, 

4  Lanyards, 

2  Fuze  Cutters, 
28  Yards  Slow  Match, 
28  Port-fires, 

2  Powder  Flasks. 


Governor  Floyd. 
1,000  Flint  Muskets, 

Captain  Kemper — Manassas  Junction. 

IG  Boxes  Six-pounder  Shot, 

14  Boxes  Six-]iouiider  Spherical  Case, 

4  Boxes  Six  pounder  Canister, 

4  Powder  Flasks, 
34  Port  fires, 
510  Friction  Primers, 
51   Vaids  Slow  Match, 
37  Boxes  lor  I'acki ng, 

3  Sets  Wagon  Harness. 

Major  Johnson — Ashland. 
4,000  Cartridges. 

Colonel  Wm.  B.  Taliaferro. 

16,000  IMusket  Cartridges  with  Caps, 
3,000  Harper's  Ferry  Rille  Cartridges, 
351   Cartridge  Boxes  and  Belts, 
925  Yards  Wehbing, 
108  Waist  Plates. 


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Colonel  S.  V.  Fulkerson, 

15,000  Musket  Cartridges  and  Caps, 
490  Cartridge  Boxes  and  Belts. 

Major  Nat.  Tyler. 

20,000  Cartridges, 

298  Cartridge  Boxes  and  Belts. 

Governor  Harris—  Tennessee. 
1  Box  Sheet  Copper. 

Captain  Ball — Chesterfield. 

70  Cartridge  Boxes, 
4,000  Cartridges, 
2,500  Claps, 

25  Cones. 

Captain  Wickham — Henrico. 
58  Cartridge  Boxes, 

Captain  J.  G.  Cabell. 

68  Cartridge  Boxes, 
2,000  Pistol  Caps, 
l,5ii0  Pistol  Cartridges, 
1,500  Pistol  Caps. 

Captain  Payne — Black  Horse  Company. 

91  Cartridge  Boxes, 
1,500  Pistol  Caps. 

Captain  Harrison — Goochland  Troop. 

50  Cartridge  Boxes. 
2,000  Pistol  Caps.  % 

Captain  W.  M.  Thornton — Prince  William. 

72  Cartridge  Boxes, 
2,000  Caps. 

Captain  Wm.  H.  Briggs — Jamcsiown. 

70  Cartridge  Boxes, 

70  Waist  Bells  and  Plates. 


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52  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

A.  C.  KiNCAiD — Braxton  Court  House. 
300  Flint  Muskets,  with  extra  flints. 

Captain  R.  A.  Caskie— Wise  Legion. 

67  Altered  Rifles, 

8  Original  Percussion  Rifles, 
75  Virj;inia  Sabres, 
75  Cartridge  Boxes  and  Belts, 
5,000  Harper's  Ferry  Rillc  Cartridges. 

Captain  T.  W.  W.  Davis — Gloucester  Point. 

1,000  Musket  Cartri<]gos, 

1,000  Harper's  Ferry  Rifle  Cartridges. 

Captain  Rotster — Gloucester  Point. 
1,000  II.  F.  Rifle  Cartridges. 

General  R.  S.  Garxett — Staunton. 

250  Pounds  Rifle  Powder, 
2,500  Cartridges  (flint,) 
2,500  Cartridges  (percussion,) 
20,000  Caps, 

48  Yards  Slow  Match. 

•  Colonel  George  H.  Territt — Alexandria^ 

500  Cartridge  Boxes, 
810  Yards  Webbing. 

Captain  Isaacson — Washington  Artillery. 

12  Lanyards, 

0  8  Tube  i'ouclies, 

10  llamos  Hooks. 

Sent  to  Charlottesville )  Virginia, 

1  Six-pounder  Iron  Gun, 
1  Twelve-pounder  iron  Gun. 

Colonel  A.  P.  Hill — Harper^ s  Fcrnj. 
40  Cartridge  Boxes, 


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Captain  Collins —  Williavisburg. 

2,600  Pistol  Cartridges, 
1;S00  Percussion  Caps. 

Captain  Stanard — Richmond. 
4  Riding  Saddles. 

Captain  Edmund  Ruffin,  Jr. — Prmce  George, 

5,000  Pistol  Cartridges, 
5,000  Pistol  Caps. 

General  W.  Gwynn — Norfolk. 

1,000  Flint  Muskets, 
3,000  Extra  Flints, 
80  Flint  Muskets, 
100  Extra  Flints, 
4  Lock's  Rifle  Cannon, 
4  Tangent  Scales, 
4  Vent  Pouches. 

Colonels  Preston  and  Heth. 

1  Sabre  and  Belt, 

2  Revolvers  and  Holsters. 

T.  C.  Jordan — Liberty ,  Bedford  County. 
4  Iron  Six  pounder  Guns. 

Major  B.  S.  Ewell — Williamsburg. 

250  Flint  Muskets, 

300  Extra  Flints, 

600  Cartridge  Boxes, 

24,000  Cartridges, 

600  Belts  and  Plates, 

2  Six-pounder  Brass  Guns  and  Carriages,  com- 
plete, 

2  Six-pounder  Iron  Guns  and  Carriages,  complete, 

50  Boxes  Six-poundcr  Shot,  fixed, 

12  Boxes  Six-ponnder  Spherical  Case,  fixed, 

2  Boxes  Six- pounder  Canister,  fixed, 

4  Powder  Flasks, 

585  Fririion  Tubes, 

39  Portfires, 


54  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

78  Yards  Slow  xMatch, 

4  Fuze  Cutters, 

5  Lauyards, 

S  Thumb  Stalls, 
4  Priming  Wires, 
4  Haversacks, 
4  Tube  Pouches, 
4  Port-fire  Cases, 
4  Prolouges, 
16  Bricoles, 
4  Gunner's  Gimlets, 
4  Water  Buckets. 

Captain  L.  S.  Marye — Richmond. 

4  Six-pounder  Brass  Cannon,  to  be  mounted. 

Captain  H.  C.  Cabell — Richmond. 

3  Caisson  Wagons, 
28  Port-fires, 

8  Yards  Slow  Match, 

4  Canisters  Rifle  Powder, 
4  Thumb  Stalls, 

8  Haversacks, 

4  Tube  Pouches, 

4  Prolouges, 

8  Bricols, 

4  Priming  Wires  and  an  extra  Pole. 

Colonel  W.  T.  Jones — Gloucester. 

60  Virginia  Flint  Muskets, 
15  Original  Percussion  Muskets, 
15  Cartridge  Boxes  and  Belts, 
15  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
15  Cap  Pouches, 
15  Sets  Belts  and  Plates. 

Major  J.  P.  Wilson — Fort  Powhatan. 

200  Flint  Muskets, 
200  Extra  Flints, 

25  Flint  Muskets, 

50  Flints, 
2,500  Cartridges. 

Colonel  Jackson — Harpefs  Ferry* 
X;000  Altered  Muskets, 


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Colonel  Philip  St.  Geo.  Cocke — Alexandria. 

3,000  Flint  Lock  Muskets, 
2,000  Extra  Flints. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  Pegram — Richmond. 

2  Six-pounder  Brass  Guns, 
1  Parrot  Rifle, 
I  Burton  Rifle. 

Captain  Forrest — Norfolk. 
60  Flint  Muskets. 

Colonel  Preston —  Virginia  Military  Institute. 
8  Six-pounder  Brass  Cannon. 

Colonel  P.  T.  Moore— Rich?no7id. 

9,000  Cartridges. 
20,000  Caps. 

Captain  Griswold — Richmond. 

600  Cartridges, 
700  Caps. 

Captain  M.  H.  Watkins— /5/e  of  Wight. 

600  Cartridges, 
700  Caps. 

Captain  B.  W.  Tali^ky— Hanover. 

600  Cartridges, 
700  Caps. 

Captain  J.  W.  Atkinson — Hc?irico. 

200  Cartridges, 
300  Caps. 

Captain  C.  H.  Harrison. 

600  Cartridges, 
700  Caps. 


[Doc.  No.  35.] 
Colonel  Garlick. 


500  Cartridges, 
COO  Caps, 

2S  Fixed  Shot, 

28  Fixed  Canister, 

75  Friction  Tubes. 

Captain  J.  G.  Hodgers. 

700  Cartridges, 
900  Caps, 

56  Fixed  Shot, 

14  Canister, 

28  Shrapnel, 

75  Friction  Tubes. 

Captain  J.  F.  Chalmers — Isle  of  Wight. 

2S  Fixed  Shot, 
28  Canister. 

Captain  John  Q.  Marr — Fauquier. 

1,000  Cartridges, 
1,200  Caps. 

Captain  William  J.  Green — Stafford. 

1,200  Cartridges, 
1,400  Caps. 

Captain  R.  L.  Walker — Richmond. 
100  Fixed  Shot  Rifle  Cannon. 

T.  T.  Cropper. 

GOO  Cartridges, 
700  Caps, 

28  Fixed  Shot, 

28  Fixed  Canister, 

75  Friction  Tubes. 

Captain  W.  W.  Thornton — Prince  William. 

COO  Cartridges, 
700  Caps. 


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General  Willtam  B.  Taliaferro — Norfolk. 

21  Rounds  Rifle  Cannon, 
60  Friction  Tubes. 

Colonel  John  H.  Richardson — Richmond. 

600  Cartridges, 
700  Caps. 

Captain  Chamblers — Sussex. 

360  Cartridges, 

400  Caps, 

1  Pound  Powder. 

Captain  Potts — Pritice  Edward. 

600  Cartridges, 

700  Caps.  ^ 

Captain  M.  Burkes — Tappahannock. 

1,000  Cartridges, 
1/200  Caps. 

Captain  R.  S.  Carthorne — Tappahannock. 
1,000  Cartridges. 

General  Harper — Harpcfs  Ferry. 

11,000  Cartridges, 
13,000  Caps. 

Captain  J.  Harrison. 
1,000  Cartridges. 

Captain  B.  Hall. 

3,500  Cartridges, 
4,000  Caps. 

Captain  H.  D.  Dicki.nson 

2,600  Cartridges; 
3,000  Caps. 
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[Doc.  No.  35.] 

General  Walter  Gwynn. 
200  Rounds  Rifle  Cannon. 

Doctor  R.  L.  Nicholson — West  Point. 

4,600  Cartridges, 
6;000  Caps. 

Colonel  E,  H.  McDonald — Hampshire, 

2,000  Cartridges, 
2,300  Caps. 

Colonel  W.  T.  Jones. 

5,000  Cartridges, 
5,000  Caps. 

Captain  Hunter — Georgia  Troop. 

40,000  Cartridges, 
45,000  Caps. 

Colonel  C.  d.  Tompkins — Kanawha. 

4,600  Cartridges, 
5,000  Caps, 

80  Fixed  Shot, 
500  Flints. 

Captain  R.  L.  Walker — Fredericksburg. 

58  Fixed  Shot, 

28  Canister, 
158  Shells, 
200  Friction  Tubes. 

Major  J.  P.  Wilson — Fort  Powhatan. 

3,000  Cartridges, 
3,500  Caps, 
6,000  Cartridges. 

Captain  J.  H.  Garnett — Mathews. 

600  Cartridges, 
660  Caps. 


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Captain  E.  T.  Blamire — Portsmouth, 

3,000  Cartridges, 
100  Points. 

Steamer  Yorktown. 

1;000  Cartridges, 
50  Flints. 

Captain  S.  S.  Weisiger — Amelia. 

1,200  Cartridges, 
1,250  Caps. 

Major  General  Gwynn — Norfolk. 

25,000  Cartridges, 
15,000  Caps. 

Captain  Fife — Putnam. 

600  Cartridges, 
700  Caps. 

Captain  Boykin — Western  Virginia. 
2,400  Cartridges. 

Captain  Kemper — Culpeper. 

16,000  Cartridges, 
17,600  Caps, 

28  Fixed  Shot, 

28  Canister, 

75  Tubes. 

Major  B.  S.  Ewell — Williamsburg. 

8,000  Cartridges, 
300  Flints. 

Colonel  A.  S.  Taylor — Alexandria, 
10,000  Cartridges. 

Captain  Lay — Powhatan, 

1,200  Cartridges, 
1,200  Caps. 


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J.  P.  May — Petersburg, 

5,000  Cartridges, 
5;5U0  Caps. 

Captain  J.  F.  Kent— TF^Mc. 

600  Cartridges, 
700  Caps. 

Colonel  Cocke — Alexandria. 
2,600  Cartridges,  with  Caps. 

Colonel  John  McCausland — Putnam, 

5,000  Cartridges, 

16  Fixed  Shot, 

4  Canister, 

30  Tubes. 

Captain  W.  T.  Jones — Gloucester, 

2,200  Cartridges, 
2,400  Caps, 

42  Fixed  Shot, 
5(3  Canister, 
4  Lanyards, 
400  Flints. 

Eli  Phlegar  &  Co. — Christiansburg , 

600  Cartridges, 
100  Flints. 

Captain  George  S.  Patton — Kanawha, 

2,000  Cartridges, 
2,200  Caps. 

Captain  B.  J.  Wiialton — Louisa, 

600  Cartridges. 

Captain  R.  M.  Cary — Richmond, 

2,000  Cartridges, 
2,200  Caps, 


[Doo.  No.  53.]  ei. 

Captain  Rodgers — Alexandria, 

100  Canister  Shot, 
100  Blank  Cartridges, 
150  Tnbes, 
4  Lanyards. 

General  Ruggles— JPrecfencArsiMr^. 

10,000  Cartridges, 
500  Flints, 
100  Rounds  for  eight  inch  Columbiad. 

Colonel  L.  C.  Finney — Accomac, 

5,000  Cartridges, 
2,000  Caps, 
42  Fixed  Shot, 
56  Canister, 
3  Lanyards, 
175  Flints. 

Colonel  George  A.  Baily — Carter^s  Wharf. 
1,000  Cartridges. 

Captain  E.  L.  Wharton — Westmoreland, 
1,000  Cartridges. 

General  Cocke — Alexandria, 
100  Rounds  for  eight  inch  Columbiad. 

Colonel  Taylor — Gloucester, 

2,600  Cartridges, 
2,200  Caps. 

Captain  G.  A.  Hudgins — Elizabeth  City, 

1,000  Cartridges, 
50  Flints. 

Major  G.  W.  Randolph — Richmond, 

60  Howitzer  Shells, 

24  Canister, 
108  Shrapnels, 
350  Tubes. 


65  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

Captain  H.  C.  Cabell — Richmond. 

82  Fixed  Shot, 
56  Canister, 
42  Shrapnels, 
200  Tubes. 

J.  A.  ExGLisH — Fredericksburg y  Va, 

2,000  Cartridges, 
2,100  Caps. 

Captain  Wyatt  M.  Elliott — Richmond. 

800  Cartridges, 
1,000  Caps. 

Captain  R.  S.  Archer — Richmond. 
2,000  Cartridges. 

Captain  M.  Vaden — Charles  City. 

1,000  Cartridges, 
1,000  Caps. 

Captain  M.  P.  Todd— Acw  Kent. 

1,000  Cartridges, 
1,000  Cans. 

Captain  Taylor — Surry. 

1,000  Cartridges, 
1,000  Caps. 

G.  M.  Waddell. 
600  Cartridges. 

Captain  W.  W.  Weisiger — Chesterfield, 
1,000  Cartridges. 

Captain  Z,  S.  Magruder — (Henrico.) 

1,000  Cartridges, 
1;^00  Caps. 


[Doo.  No.  35.] 

Colonel  Barney — Norfolk. 
11  Boxes  Ammunition;  (for  24  pounder  howitzer.) 

Captain  R.  Douthat — Oharles  City, 

1,000  Cartridges, 
1,000  Caps. 

Joseph  Mayo — Mayor  of  Richmond. 

600  Cartridges, 
100  Flints. 


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(APPENDIX  A.) 


RrCHMOND,  April  1,  1861. 

Sir:  I  liave  the  honor  to  rer.eiv^e,  through  the  clerk  of  the 
Ilonseof  Delegates,  a  resolution  adopted  on  the  9th  ult.,  request- 
ing "the  Armory  Commissioners  to  report  the  amount  of  bonds 
they  obtained  from  the  Board  of  Public  Works,  under  the  provi- 
sions of  the  act  appropriating  five  hundred  thousand  dollars  to 
repair  the  armory  and  to  purchase  arms;  whether  they  sold  the 
bonds;  and  if  so,  whether  at  par,  or  at  what  discount;  and  also 
to  render  an  account  of  their  expenditures;  and  for  what  purpose, 
giving  the  items  and  prices;  and  if  they  received  the  whole 
five  hundred  thousand  dollars  of  State  bonds,  what  part  thereof 
has  been  expended,  and  what  disposition  have  they  made  of  any 
part  thereof  not  expended." 

The  Commissioners  have  received  no  State  bonds  whatever. 
They  have  certified  accounts  to  the  Board  of  Public  Works,  and 
have  requested  them  to  pay  such  accounts.  The  means  for  do- 
ing so  were  obtained  by  sale  of  the  bonds  of  the  State  at  the 
Treasury  for  their  par  value. 

The  purchasers  of  the  bonds  were  contractors  who  had  sold 
arms  to  the  State,  or  persons  who  had  advanced  money  to  con- 
tractors and  others;  and  they,  as  already  reported  indemnified 
themselves  for  losses,  by  charging  enhanced  prices.  Tlie  ac- 
count to  be  rendered  before  the  Board  of  Public  Works,  under  a 
f()rmer  resolution  of  the  House  of  Delegates,  will  show  the 
amount  so  charged. 

I  regret  that  my  attendance  on  the  Convention  has  prevented 
me  from  furnishing  a  statement  of  this  account  as  requested. 
The  vouchers  are  ready  to  be  submitted  to  the  Board  of  Public 
Works,  and  the  account,  when  stated,  will  be  placed  in  the  hands 
of  the  clerk  of  the  House  of  Delegates. 

Three  hundred  and  twenty  thousand  dollars  were  appropri- 
ated for  the  armory,  of  wliicli  a  little  upwards  of  ten  thousand 
dollars  have  been  expended.  The  appropriation  for  the  purchase 
of  arms  was  one  hundred  and  eighty  thousand  dollars,  and  the 
contracts  made  will  require  it  all.  As  yet,  however,  the  amount 
expended  is  about  one  hundred  and  fifty-lour  thousand  dollars. 
I  have  the  honor  to  be, 

Your  most  ob't  servant, 

GEO.  W.  RANDOLPH. 
Hon.  Speaker  House  Delegates. 
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(APPENDIX  B.) 


JGl.f 


Ordnance  Department, 
Richmond,  Jmio  15,  ISGl. 

His  ExciUenc]/,  John  Letciikr,  Governor  of  Virginia: 

Governor, — I  have  the  honor  to  hand  you  an  abstract  of  issues 
made  from  the  armory  in  this  city,  from  the  1st  of  April  to  the 
14th  of  June  of  this  year,  both  days  inchisive. 

I  assume  the  1st  of  April,  because  that  was  about  the  date 
when  I  commenced  n)y  duties  as  colonel  of  ordn;ince,  and  the 
14th  of  June,  because  on  that  day  the  duties  of  the  ordnance 
department  were  divided  between  the  chief  of  ordnance  of  the 
Confederacy  and  myself 

Your  Excellency  will  remember,  that  I  had  no  authority,  nor 
was  there  any  appropriation  for  the  purchase  of  arms,  munitions 
or  machines  of  war,  until  a  iaw  days  prior  to  the  act  of  seces- 
sion. That  as  soon  as  I  was  authorized,  and  had  the  means  to 
purchase,  I  sent  Mr.  Adams,  the  Master  Armorer,  to  the  North 
with  bills  of  credit  to  procure  such  essentials  as  percussion  cap 
machine,  bullet  machine,  sabres,  pistols,  carbines  and  other  ar- 
ticles in  which  the  State  was  deficient;  and  that  the  announce- 
ment of  the  State's  secession  following  so  soon  after  his  leaving 
liere,  caused  him  to  ftil  in  obtaining  even  one  single  article,  and 
that  he  only  was  enabled  to  return  here  bv  disguising  himself, 
and  making  his  way  as  a  common  laborer  seeking  work. 

Being  thus  deprived  of  tlmse  labor-saving  machines,  I  have 
had  to  resort  to  the  human  hands,  and  with  but  limited  and 
crude  materials  to  prepare  our  troops  for  the  field;  and  as  these 
troops  took  the  field  rapidly,  and  as  the  operatives  employed  in 
the  various  preparations  of  amnuinition,  gun-carriages,  »fcc.,  were 
entirely  uiiaccpuuntcd  with  the  work.  I  hope  the  result  will  be 
satisfactory. 

Alter  consulting  with  you,  at  the  commencement  of  difll'^ul- 
ties,  I  made  preparation  for  15,000  men,  as  the  probable  number 
that  Virginia  would  be  called  upon  to  place  in  the  field.  I  have, 
however,  actually  made  up  and  issued  ammunition  to  the  amount 
of  forty  rounds  to  a  man,  for  50,000  men, — have  issued  43,058 
muskets,  carbines  and  rifles,  and  115  pieces  of  artillery,  (of 
which  fifty  had  to  be  mounted  complete  in  this  city,  with  eighty- 
sets  of  artillery  harness  for  four  horses  each,)  Avith  a  due  propor- 
tion of  ammunitiou  to  each  piece,  supplying  out  of  the  above 
many  of  the  troops  from  others  of  the  Confederate  States. 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  67 

1,  yesterday,  turned  over  to  the  ordnance  department  of  the 
Southern  Confederacy,  a  laboratory  with  machines,  fixtures  and 
hands  capable  of  turning  out  75,000  rounds  of  anmiuiiition 
daily,  and  9,894  rounds  of  artillery  ammunition,  and  114,400 
rounds  of  infantry  ammunition  ready  for  immediate  issue. 
I  am  sir,  very  respectfully, 

C.  DIMMOCK, 
Colonel  of  Ordnance  of  Virginia. 


INVENTORY  OF  ISSUES 

From  the  Virginia  State  Armory  from  April  1, 1861,  to  June  14, 
1861,  inclusive. 

9,233  Cartridge  Boxes, 
4,842  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
5,123  Cap  Pouches, 
9,500  Belts  and  Plates, 
275,000  Yards  of  Webbing  for  Belts, 
2,054  Ritles  and  Carbines, 

562  Pistols, 
1,813  Sabres, 
25,850  Flint  Muskets, 
11,636  Altered  i'ercussion  Muskets, 
4,118  Original  Percussion  Muskets, 
1,540,850  Cartridges  for  Small  Arms, 
1,540,850  Caps  for  the  same, 

53  Iron  Cannon,  six  and  twelve  pounders, 
39  Brass  Cannon,  six  and  twelve  pounders, 
14  Rifle  Cannon,  six  pounders, 
9  Howitzers,  twelve  pounders, 
6,000  Fiiction  Tubes, 
11,258  Rounds  Fixed  Ammunition  for  Artillery. 

Of  the  artillery,  fifty  pieces  were  mounted  in  this  city. 

Ammunition  on  hand  in  the  Labnratonj ,  turned  over  on  the  14/A 
instant  to  the  Southern  Confederacy, 

1,000,000  Percussion  Caps, 

9,894  Hounds  of  Anmiunition  for  Artillery, 
114,400  Rounds  of  Ammunition  for  Infantry. 

C.  DIMMOCK, 
Colonel  of  Ordnance  of  Virginia. 

P.  S. — In  addition  to  the  above  issues,  about  13,000  muskets 
and  rifles  have  been  issued  from  the  Virginia  Military  lustiiutej 


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also,  two  six-pounder  bronze  cannon,  two  twelve  pounder  how- 
itzer, four  six-pounder  brass  pieces,  (cadets  battery,)  one  Parrott 
rifle  cannon,  eight  sets  of  artillery  harness,  20,000  musket  car- 
tridges, 9,000  pounds  rifle,  musket  and  cannon  powder,  and  250 
rounds  of  artillery  annnuuition. 

CD. 


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(APPENDIX  C.) 


Office  of  Naval  Detail  and  Equipment,") 
Richmond,  June  10,  1861.         5 

Sir, — I  have  the  honor  to  infiirm  your  Excellency  that  the 
important  duty  of  the  naval  defences  of  the  rivers  of  Virginia, 
was  assigned  to  the  ofiicers  of  the  Virginia  navy,  on  the  23d  of 
April  last. 

A  few  days  previous,  the  magazine,  at  Norfolk,  with  upwards 
of  three  hundred  thousand  pounds  of  powder,  and  a  large  num- 
ber of  shells,  was  captured  by  Lieutenants  Pegram,  Sinclair  and 
Jones.  This  daring  and  unauthorized  attack,  placed  at  the  dis- 
posal of  the  State  an  amount  of  ammunition  it  would  be  difficult 
to  supply,  and  with  the  cannon  taken  at  the  Norfolk  yard, 
afforded  all  the  materials  needed  for  the  batteries. 

The  rivers  of  Virginia  being  undefended,  and  exposed  to  at- 
tack, it  is  due  to  the  naval  officers  of  Virginia  to  say,  that  they 
went  to  work  to  defend  them,  with  zeal  proportionate  to  the  ne- 
cessities of  the  case.  Heavy  cannon  were  mov^ed  to  their  des- 
tinations with  dispatch  ;  ammunition  and  projectiles  provided; 
men  instructed,  and  every  other  preparation  made  to  repel  an 
opposing  forre. 

In  erecting  the  batteries  at  Sewell's  Point,  at  Pig's  Point,  at 
Aquia  Creek,  and  at  Gloucester  Point,  they  were  attacked  by 
armed  steamers.  In  each  case  the  enemy  were  repulsed,  and 
the  works  continued  and  finished,  in  spite  of  their  fire. 

The  works  on  the  Elizabeth,  James,  York  and  Rappahan- 
nock rivers,  are  so  far  completed  as  to  justify  the  belief  that  they 
will  be  able  to  drive  off  any  naval  force  that  the  United  Slates 
Govcrmnent  can  bring  against  them. 

On  the  Potomac  river,  batteries  have  been  erected  at  the  ter- 
minus of  the  Richmond,  Fredericksburg  and  Potomac  Kail  Road 
on  Aquia  Creek.  In  their  incomplete  state  they  were  attacked, 
three  times,  by  a  superior  force,  and  in  each  case  Captain  Lynch 
repulsed  the  enemy's  steamers,  with  considerable  loss.  If  the 
attack  should  be  renewed,  Captain  Lynch  is  now  prepared  to 
strike  a  more  serious  blow. 

The  connnand  of  the  steamer  Teaser,  lias  been  assigned  to 
Lieutenant  Rochelle.  Two  32  pound  guns  have  been  placed 
upon  her,  and  she  is  now  employed  on  the  defences  of  James 
river. 

Captain  J.  R.  Tucker  is  fitting  out  the  steamer  Yorktown, 


7p 


[Doc.  No.  35.] 


with  as  heavy  a  hattery  as  she  will  bear.  Slio  will  be  ready  by 
the  1st  of  July,  and  will  be  a  valuable  auxiliary  to  the  defences 
of  James  River. 

A  howitzer  batter}'-,  of  six  guns,  has  been  organized  by  Lieu- 
tenant Parker.  Four  of  the  jiieces  are  now  mounted;  the  drill 
of  the  men  is  perfect,  and  this  battery  will  he  valuable,  wheth- 
er employed  in  the  field,  or  in  the  defences  of  Richmond. 

The  frigate  Merrimac  lias  been  raised,  and  is  now  in  the  dry 
dock  at  iS'orfolk.  The  other  sunken  ships  will  be  raised  as  soon 
as  the  dock  is  ready  to  receive  them. 

The  enclosed  list,  marked  (A,)  will  .show  the  number  and 
calibre  of  the  cannon  at  the  various  batteries;  and  that  marked 
(B,)  the  number  and  calibre  sent  to  the  other  States  of  the  Con- 
federacy. 

i  ani;  very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

S.  IVVRON;  Captain. 


[Doc.  Ko.  35.]  Tl 


(APPENDIX  D.) 


HEADQUARTEnS  OF    THE  VlROtMA  PoRCES,") 

Richmond,  .June  15,  I  SGI.      ) 

His  Excellency,  John  Letcher,  Governor  of  Virginia: 

Sir, — Agreeably  to  your  request,  I  suhinit  a  statement  of  the 
mihtary  and  naval  preparations  for  the  defence  of  Virginia,  from 
the  period  of  her  separation  from  the  United  States  Government, 
to  the  date  of  transfer  of  the  military  operations  of  the  State  to 
the  Confederate  Government. 

Arrangements  were  made  for  the  establishment  of  batteries  to 
prevent  the  ascent  of  onr  rivers  by  hostile  vessels.  As  soon  as 
an  examination  was  made  for  tlie  selection  of  sites,  their  con- 
strnctioii  was  begun,  and  their  armament  and  defence  committed 
to  the  Virginia  navy. 

Preparations  were  also  begun  to  receive  into  the  service  of  the 
State,  volunteer  companies,  and  for  organizing,  arming  and 
eqm'pping  them.  Mustering  officers  were  appointed,  rendezvous 
estalilished,  and  provision  made  for  tlieirsnl)sisience  and  shelter. 

The  primary  estimate  of  the  number  of  troops,  of  all  arms  re- 
quired, based  upon  tlie  pitints  to  be  defended,  amounted  to 
.51 ,000  men.  Tlie  estimated  quota  of  each  portion  of  the  State 
has  been  furnished,  except  from  the  western  section.  Arrange- 
ments were  tnade  fir  calling  out  volunteers  from  the  western  sec- 
tion at  the  same  time,  and  in  the  same  manner  as  from  the  eastern 
section,  but  as  yet  it  has  been  feebly  responded  to. 

Complete  returns  from  the  troops  in  the  field  have  not,  and, 
from  the  nature  of  things,  cannot  fir  some  time  be  received. 
IJut  from  the  best  sources  of  information  witliin  onr  reach,  the 
number  of  Virginia  troops  is  about  3-5,000  men.  This  amount 
probably  falls  below  the  real  number,  l()r,  referring  to  the  report 
of  the  colonel  of  ordnance,  it  will  be  seen  that  he  has  issued 
2,0.')4  rifles  and  carbines,  and  41,604  muskets,  in  addition  to 
pistols  and  sabres  to  the  eavalry.  Thirteen  thousand  arms  have 
also  been  issued  from  Lexingtou,  making  a  total  of  yG,6.38. 
Seven  thousand  of  tliosc  from  Lexington,  and  several  thousand 
from  the  arsenal  at  Richmond,  have  been  issued  to  troops  from 
other  Slates,  but  many  of  the  Virginia  companies,  supposed 
to  be  about  .*),000  men,  were  armed,  when  received  into  the  ser- 
vice of  the  Slate.  Should  the  number  of  armed  companies  from 
othor  States  not  differ  materially  from  the  ntmibcr  of  armed  com- 
panies of  the  State,  the  number  of  Virginia  troops  in  the  field 
may  be  assumed  to  be  about  40,000. 


72  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

When  it  is  remembered  that  this  body  of  men  was  called  from 
a  slate  of  prof  )Uiul  peace  to  one  of  nnex]-»erted  war,  you  will 
have  reason  to  ronnncnd  the  nlaoriiy  with  whioh  they  left  their 
homes  and  families,  and  prepared  themselves  for  the  defence  of 
the  S(ate. 

The  assemliling  of  the  men,  however,  was  not  the  most  dif- 
ficult operation.  Provision  for  their  iustruciion,  subsiotencc, 
equipment,  clothing,  sheUer  and  transportation  in  the  field,  re- 
quired more  time  and  labor.  The  carriages  of  the  guns  for 
river,  land  and  fiekl  service,  had  to  be  made,  with  the  necessary 
implements,  caissons,  battery  wagons,  Arc. 

One  hundred  and  fifteon  guns  for  field  service  have  thus 
been  provided,  from  wliich  twenty  li^dit  batteries,  of  four 
guns  each  have  been  furnished  with  the  requisite  horses, 
harness,  «fcc 115 

For  the  defence  of  James  River;  two  batteries  and  two 
steamers  have  been  [)rovided,  mounting  alt<^gether  40  guns, 
varying  in  calibre  from  32  pounders  to  8  and  9  inch  Colum- 
biads.  Arrangements  are  also  in  progress  for  mounting 
sixty  guns  of  (lilferent  weights  in  the  defences  around  Rich- 
mond, and  a  naval  battery  of  six  12-pound  Howitzers  is  in 
process  of  organization 40 

On  York  River  three  batteries  have  been  constructed, 
mounting  thirty  guns,  of  calibres  similar  to  the  guns  on 
James  River 30 

Sites  for  batteries  on  the  Potomac  have  also  been  selected, 
and  anangemenis  are  in  progress  for  their  construction. 
But  tlie  entire,  command  of  that  river  beiu?  in  possession  of 
the  United  States  Govermnent,  and  a  larger  force  required 
for  their  security  than  could  be  devoted  to  that  purpose,  the 
batteries  at  Aquia  CrecJc  have  only  been  prepared.  Twelve 
guns  are  in  j)osition  there 12 

On  the  Ra])paliannock  River  a  four  gun  battery  of  32- 
ponnders  and  eight  inch  Columbiads  has  been  erected 4 

Six  batteries  have  been  erected  on  tjie  Elizabeth  River,  to 
guard  the  approaches  to  Norfolk  and  the  Navy  Yard.  They 
mount  85  32-pounders  and  S  and  9  inch  Columbiads g5 

To  prevent  the  ascent  of  the  Nansemoud  River  and  the 
occupation  of  the  Railroad  from  Norli)ik  toRicJiniond,  tlirec 
batteries  have  been  constructed  on  t.'iat  river,  which  will 
mount  10  guns 19 

The  frigate  I'^niled  States  has  been  prepared  for  a  school 
shij),  and  provided  with  a  deck  battery  of  19  32-pounders 
and  9  inch  Columbiads  for  harbor  defence 19 

324 

The  frigate  Merimac  has  been  raised  and  is  in  the  dry  dock, 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  73 

and  arrangements  are  made  for  raising  the  Germantown  and  Ply- 
mouth. 

In  addition  to  the  batteries  alreadydcscribod,otlicr  works  have 
been  constructed  for  their  land  defence,  exceeding  in  many  in- 
stances the  work  on  the  batteries  themselves.  An  cxtensiv^e  line 
of  field  works  has  been  erected  for  the  security  of  Norfolk,  on 
the  side  toAvards  the  bay.  Redoubts  for  the  same  purpose  have 
been  constructed  at  Jamestown  Island,  Gloucester  Point,  York- 
town,  and  across  the  neck  of  land  below  Williamsburg. 

I  have  confined  myself  to  a  general  narrative  of  operations, 
and  for  the  detail,  refer  you  to  the  reports  of  the  several  chiefs  of 
staff. 

I  ani;  Governor;  very  respectfully. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

ROBERT  E.  LEE, 
General  Commanding. 


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[Doc.  No.  35.]  15 


(APPENDIX  E.) 


BY  THH:  governor  of  VIRGINIA. 

A  PROCLAMATION. 

The  delegates  of  the  people  of  Virginia,  in  Convention  assem- 
bled, having  by  their  ordinance,  passed  April  25,  1S61,  adopted 
and  ratified  the  Constitution  of  the  Provisional  Government  of 
the  Confederate  States  of  America,  ordained  and  estahUshed  at 
Montgomery,  Alabama,  on  the  8th  day  of  February,  1801,  and 
the  State  of  Virginia  having  been,  by  an  act  of  the  Congress  of 
the  Provisional  Government  of  the  Confederate  States,  passed 
May  7^  1861,  admitted  as  a  State  into  the  Confederate  Govern- 
ernment,  and  the  President  being,  under  the  Constitution  of  the 
Provisional  Government  of  the  Confederate  States,  the  com- 
mander-in-chief of  the  army  and  navy  of  the  Confederate  States, 
and  of  the  mihtia  of  the  several  States  when  called  into  the  ser- 
vice of  the  Confederate  States. 

Now,  therefore,  I,  John  Letcher,  Governor  of  the  Common- 
monwealth  of  Virginia,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 
the  Executive  Council,  do  hereby  transfer  to  the  anthorities  of 
the  Confederate  States,  by  regiments,  all  the  volunteer  forces 
which  have  been  mustered  into  the  service  of  Virginia,  and  do 
order  a  like  transfer  to  be  made  by  regiments,  battalions,  squad- 
rons and  companies  of  all  volunteers,  or  militia,  as  the  same  shall 
be  formed  and  their  services  may  be  required. 

I  further  hereby  transfer  to  the  authorities  of  the  Confederate 
States  the  command  of  all  the  officers,  seamen  and  marines  of 
the  Provisional  Navy  of  Virginia  for  service  in  the  Confederate 
States. 

I  do  further  order  that  all  officers  of  the  Virginia  service  now 
on  duty  in  any  of  the  departments  of  the  stalf,  continue  to  dis- 
charge their  respective  functions  under  the  direction  and  control 
of  the  President,  until  otherwise  ordered;  and  that  all  quarter- 
master, commissary  and  medical  stores  belonging  to  the  State 
and  in  charge  of  said  ofli^ers,  be  turned  over  for  the  use  of  the 
Confederate  States,  upon  proper  receipts  for  the  articles  turned 
ovor,  to  be  firwarded  to  the  accounting  nlli:er  fir  settlement. 
All  monies  in  charge  of  any  of  the  deparltnents  will  be  forthwith 
returned  into  the  treasury  of  the  Stale. 


76  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

I  do  further  order  the  provisional  army  of  Virginia  to  respect 
and  obey  all  lawful  orders  emanating  from  the  President,  or 
those  commanding  under  his  authority;  and  that  the  same  may 
be  incorporated,  in  whole  or  in  part,  into  the  provisional  army  of 
the  Confederate  States,  at  tlie  pleasure  of  the  President. 

I  do  further  authorize  the  use  of  all  public  property,  munitions 
of  war,  6cc.,  captured  from  the  United  States,  the  machinery  at 
Harper's  Ferry  excepted,  by  the  President  or  those  acting  under 
his  authority,  for  the  common  defence. 

Given  under  my  hand  as  Governor,  and  under  the  seal  of  the 
State,  at  Rirhmoud,  this  sixth  day  of  June,  A.  D.  ISOl,  and  in 
the  eighty-fifili  year  of  the  Commonwealth. 

JOHN  LETCHER. 

By  the  Gm-ernnr: 

George  W.  Munford, 

Secretary  of  the  Cofmnonicealth, 


[Doc.  No.  85.]  77 


(APPENDIX  F.) 


Executive  Department,") 
June  14,  1861.     y 

To  His  Excellency^  John  Letcher,  Governor  of  Virginia: 

Sir, — The  amount  actually  paid  out  of  the  State  Treasury, 
from  the  3 1st  of  April  to  the  present  date,  hy  orders  of  the  Board, 
appointed  to  audit  military  aud  naval  claims,  is  as  follows: 

For  the  Army $1,737,950  49 

For  the  Navy 100,748  49 

Total $1,838,698  98 

Besides  this  there  are  outstanding  allowances  not  yet  present- 
ed at  the  Treasury,  which  will  probably  amount  to  $100,000 
additional.  These  amounts  do  not  include  pay  of  the  officers 
and  men,  the  pay  rolls  not  having  yet  been  presented  or  made 
out.  The  Paymaster-general  estimates  the  amount  necessary 
for  pay  alone,  to  the  1st  of  June,  at  $1,000,000,  for  troops  now 
in  the  field.  Additional  forces  now  called  out  will  require  more. 
He  also  estimates  that  there  will  be  required,  for  commutation 
for  clothing  of  the  troops,  and  commutation  for  flirage  for  officers, 
the  sum  of  §841,000.     Total  required,  $3,679,698  98. 

GEORGE  W.  MUNFORD, 

Secretary  of  the  Commonwealth. 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  W 


(APPENDIX  G.) 


DivisiOxN  Headquarters,     ") 
Harper's  Ferry,  April  19,  1861.  y 

General^ — I  beg  to  communicate  through  you  to  Governor 
Letcher,  that  I  am  forwarding  to  Winchester,  with  all  despatch 
possible,  the  arms  atid  machinery  at  this  place,  retaining  only 
such  of  the  arms  which  are  complete,  and  rescued  from  the  burn- 
ing as  are  thought  necessary  to  equip  the  troops,  imperft;ctly 
armed  as  they  rame  in.  There  are  now  about  thirteen  hundred 
men  here,  and  I  expect  reinforcements  to  the  number  of  five  hun- 
dred in  a  few  hours,  and  I  have  information  of  about  a  thousand 
now  on  the  way.  It  is  estimated  by  a  number  of  the  workmen 
lately  employed  in  the  armory,  who  presented  themselves  to  me 
to-day  as  a  committee,  that  it  would  take  several  months  to  re- 
move the  machinery  and  other  public  property  from  this  point, 
but  I  find  they  are  much  disaffected,  being  property  holders,  and 
therefore  disposed  to  exaggerate  the  difflculiies.  I  hope,  how- 
ever, that  the  interview  impressed  them  with  different  views  of 
their  own  interests,  that  their  labor  which  was  their  support,  was 
their  most  valuable  interest.  They  will  be  needed  wherever 
their  works  may  be  removed.  This  1  believe  will  induce  them 
to  aid  heartily  in  the  purposes  designed  by  the  Executive.  If 
authorised  to  give  them  assurance  of  employment,  it  would  re- 
lieve me  of  some  difficulties,  and  probably  promote  the  public 
interest.  The  armory  at  Richmond  could  be  put  in  operation  at 
once.  I  make  these  suggestions  for  the  consideration  of  the 
Governor. 

The  inf^irmation  I  have  received  in  regard  to  the  condition  of 
affairs  in  Maryland,  and  especially  the  city  of  Baltimore,  added 
to  the  appearance  of  men  on  the  mountain  on  the  Maryland  side, 
commanding  this  place,  induced  me  this  morning  to  send  an 
officer  to  the  high'  sheriff  of  the  county,  notifying  him  of  my 
distress  to,  and  of  my  unwillingness  to  trespass  UfX)n  the  soil  of 
our  sister  State,  unless  compelled  by  necessity,  requesting  him 
to  call  out  the  militia  to  maintain  their  neutrality.  My  messen- 
ger has  not  yet  returned,  and  <  ircumstances  have  since  come  to 
my  knowledge  which  impelled  me  to  order  a  company  to  occupy 
the  heights  during  the  night. 

My  labors  have  been  so  incessant  during  the  day  that  I  cannot 
communicate  more  freely  at  |>reseiit. 


80  [Doc.  No.  35.] 

!  a  despatch  from  John  W.  G 
uid  Ohio  Rail  Road. 

Very  respectfully,  your  obedient  servant 

KEXTON  H. 

Major  General  Coi 

Brig.  Gen.  W.  H.  Richardson,  AdJ't  General,  Va. 


I  enclose  a  despatch  from  John  W.  Garrett,  President  of  the 
Baltimore  and  Ohio  Rail  Road. 


KEXTON  HARPER, 

Major  General  Commanding. 


[Doo.  No.  35.]  81 


Division  Headquarters,      ) 
Harper's  Ferry,  Nov.  20,  1861.  j" 

Dear  Governor, — I  have  addressed  you  officially  through  the 
Adjutant  General,  and  I  only  wish  to  say  to  you  here,  thai  you 
know  me,  and  that  1  ninst  necessarily  be  allowed  to  act  to  a  great 
extent  upon  my  own  jndgaient,  as  to  what  is  required  by  the 
exigencies  of  my  position.  Yon  have  honored  me  with  a  high 
trnst,  involving  great  responsibilities,  and  1  will  rely  upon  you 
for  all  needful  support. 

The  influences  aronnd  me  at  Winchester,  I  found  to  be  so 
unfriendly  that  I  determined  in  a  few  hours  to  remove  my  Head- 
f^uarters  to  Charlestown.  But  one  company  had  arrived  which 
I  took  with  me,  and  left  orders  with  an  officer  directing  the  troops 
as  they  came  in  to  report  to  me  at  that  place.  The  use  of  the 
telegraph  was  denied  me  by  the  operator,  and  the  President  of 
the  road  saying  he  was  unable  to  get  another  operator,  1  closed 
the  office,  tn  prevent  its  being  used  against  me.  I  do  not  doubt, 
however,  that  the  mischief  was  done  by  theoperator,  even  before 
my  messenger  returned,  and  that  the  commanding  officer  of  the 
post  was  informed  of  my  movements. 

In  haste,  yours  truly, 

KENTON  HARPER, 
Major  General  Coimnandi?ig. 

His  Ex'cellency,  John  Letcher,  Governor. 


42 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  83 


[COPY.] 


GeXERAL   HEADQUARTERg, 

Adjutant  General's  Office,  April  17,  1861 


•  I 


Brigadier  General  James  H.  C arson, I6th  Brigade: 

Sir, — You  will  issue  instant  orders  to  the  volunteer  force  of 
your  brigade,  to  hold  itself  in  readiness  for  service  at  a  moment's 
warning,  and  snpport  any  movement  that  may  be  made  by  the 
State  troops,  upon  the  Arsenal  and  works  at  Harper's  Ferry. 
They  will  probably  be  joined  by  the  volunteers  of  Augusta  and 
Rockingham,  &c.  If  necessary,  you  will  assume  the  command 
of  the  entire  force. 

By  order  of  the  Commander-in-Chief. 

WM.  H.  RICHARDSON,^.  G, 


[Doc.  No.  35.]  85 


[COPY.] 


General  Headquarters, 
Adjutant  General's  Office,  April  18,  1861 


■  \ 


Gejieral  Thomas  Raymond,  Ooinmandijig  2d  Division: 

The  Governor  directs  that  you  give  orders  to  the  volunteer 
corps,  in  your  Division,  to  be  ready  for  service  at  a  moment's 
notice,  and  to  the  Brigadier  Generals  to  be  prepared  for  service. 
That  you  take  measures  effectually  to  prevent  the  passage  of  the 
Federal  or  any  other  troops  from  the  West,  Eastward  on  the  Bal- 
timore and  Ohio  Rail  Road. 

The  Brigadier  Generals  of  your  Division  are  Buckner  Fairfax, 
Preston,  10th  Brigade;  James  H.  Carson,  Frederick,  the  16th; 
James  Boggs,  Pendleton,  18th;  C.  B.  Conrad,  Gilmer,  20th; 
John  J.  Jackson,  Wood,  23d;  and  Bushrod  W.  Price,  Marshall, 
24th;  and  to  them,  your  orders  should  be  addressed,  promptly. 

By  command. 

WM.  H.  RICHARDSON,  A.  G, 


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[COPY.] 


General  Headquarters,  ) 

Adjutant  General's  Office,  April  IS,  1861.  \ 

Gen.  Wm.  B.  Taliaferro,  Commanding  Aih  Division: 

Sir, — You  will  forthwith  take  command  of  the  State  troops, 
which  are  now  or  may  be  asseml)led  at  the  City  of  Norfolk. 
Your  immediate  presence  there  is  necessary. 

By  command. 

WM.  H.  RICHARDSON;  A.  G. 


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General  Headquarters,         ) 
Adjutant  General's  Office,  April  22,  1861.  j" 

Major  Gejwral  Kejstos  Harper: 

Sir, — The  Governor  lias  received  yonr  report  and  desires  me 
to  convey  to  you  his  approval  of  your  proceedings.     He  directs 

me  to  inform  you  that  a  portion  of  your  force  will  be  probably 
required  at  Alexandria,  in  which  case  you  will  meet  the  requisi- 
tion of  Gen.  Phihp  St.  George  Cocke,  who  is  in  command  at 
that  point. 

Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

WM.  H.  RICHARDSON,  A.  G. 


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(A.)  , 

NAVAL  DEFENCES  OF  VIRGINIA. 


JAMES    RIVER. 
Captain  H.  H,  Cocke — Commanding  Officer. 

Fort  Powhatan — Lieutenant  C.  St.  George  Noland. 

6  Thirty-two  pnimders  of  51  cwt. 
2  Tliirt3^-two  pounders  of  27  cwt. 

2  More  thirty-two  ponnders  of  27  cwt.,  and  two  more  thirty- 

two  pounders  of  51  cwt.  are  to  be  sent  for  this  battery, 

Jamestown  Island — Lieutenant  Ap  C.  R.  Jones. 

3  Nine-inch  guns  of  9,090  pounds. 
6  Thirty-two  pounders  of  57  cwt. 
9  Eight-inch  army  columhiads. 

2  Twelve  pounder  army  guns. 

Steam  Tug  "  Teaser"*^ — Lieut.  J.  H.  Rochelle,  Commanding, 
2  Thirty-two  pounders  of  27  cwt. 

Steamer  ''Yorktown,^^  preparing  at  Richmond-^  Commander 
John  R.  Tucker. 

Will  mount  t  Ten-inch  pivot  gun  of  12,000  pounds. 
Will  mount  1   Sixty-fiur  pounder  ditto,  of  105  cwt. 
Will  mount  6  Eightifich  broadside  guns  of  63  cwt. 

Two  more  eight-inch  guns  can  be  mounted  on  this  vessel 
and  will  be  ordered. 

Arrangements  are  now  being  made  for  mounting  sixty  guns 
of  diffcretit  calibres  and  weights,  for  the  defences  of  the  city  of 
Richmond.  We  are  now  organizing  a  Naval  battery  of  sijc 
twelve  pounder  Howitzers,  f  >ur  of  which  are  now  completed. 
They  are  preparing  under  the  immediate  superintcudance  of 
Lieutenant  William  H.  Parker. 


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YORK  RIVER. 
Captain  W.  C.  Whittle— Commanding  Officer. 

*  West  Point — Commander  Wm.  Leigh. 

2  Nine  inch  guns  of  9,000  pounds, 

1  Thirty-two  pounder  of  61  cwt. 

4  Thirt)'-iwo  pounders  of  33  cwt.  are  to  be  sent  for  this  battery, 

Gloucester  Point — Commander  T.  J.  Tage. 

8  Nine  inch  guns  of  9,000  pounds, 

2  Thirty-two  pounders  of  57  cwt. 
1  ^J'hirty-two  pounder  of  33  cwt. 

1  Thirty-two  pounder  of  27  cwt. 

5  more  thirty-two  pounders  of  27  cwt.  are  to  be  sent  for  this 

battery. 

Yorlctown — Commander  J.  L.  Henderson. 

2  Eight  inch  Army  Cohimbiads, 
4  Eight  inch  Army  liarbette  guns. 

(Note. — Two  more  eight  inch  guns  are  to  be  sent  for  this  bat- 
tery.) 

POTOMAC  RIVER. 

Captain  W.  F.  Lynch — Commanding  Officer. 

Aquia  Creek. 

2  Eight  inch  guns  of  G3  cwt. 

X  Parrott  Rifled  Field  Piece,  (Walker's  company.) 

Potomac  Creek — Lieut.  Wm.  Taylor  Smith, 
2  Thirty-two  pounders  of  27  cwt. 

Hill  Battery,  near  to  the  right  of  Aquia  Creek — Lieut.  Charles 

C.    SiMMS. 

2  Eight  inch  Army  Columbiads  on  Barbette  carriages. 

Simms''  Point,  near  to  the  left  of  Aquia  Creek. 

1  Eight  inch  gun  of  03  cwt.,")  ^    ,     ,  batterv 

3  Parrott  RiflQcl  Field  Pieces.  |^^^^^^^^*^  Dattery. 


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Potomac  Oreek  Bridge — Coimmnider  R.  D.  Thorburn. 

1  Eight  inch  gun  of  63  cwt. 

RAPPAHANNOCK  RIVER. 

Captain  R.  G.  Robb — Commanding  Officer. 

Lowry^s  Point — Lieut.  Henry  C.  Lewis. 

2  Eight  inch  Army  Cohimhiads, 
2  Thirty-two  pounders  of  27  cwt. 

Note. — Three  eight  inch  guns  of  63  cwt.  have  been  ordered 
to  be  prepared  at  Norfolk  for  the  naval  defences  of  the  Rappa- 
hannock. 

HARPER'S  FERRY. 

Lieut.  Chas.  M.  Fauntleroy. 

2  Thirty-two  pounders  of  57  cwt. 

ELIZABETH  RIVER  AND  VICINITY. 
Fort  Norfolk — Commander  A..  Sinclair. 

12  nine-inch  guns  of  9,000  pounds, 
4  thirty-two  pounders  of  51  cwt. 

Fort  Nelson — Naval  Hospital — Camm^nder  Charles  F.  McIk- 

TOSH. 


2  eight-inch  guns  of  55  cwt. 

8  thirty-two  pounders  of  57  cwt. 

6  thirty-two  pounders  of  51  cwt. 


Orariey  Island — Commander  Wm.  McBlair, 

1  ten-inch  pivot  gun,  '\  Arrangements  have  been 

10  eight-inch  guns  of  63  cwt.  (made  for  mounting  thirty 

6  eight-inch  guns  of  ho  cwt.  (guns  in  all. 

4  thirty-two  pounder  guns  of  51  cwt.  J 

Busli's  Bluff — Boatswain  Young,  volunteer, 

5  thirty-two  pounder  guns  of  42  cwt. 


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Pinner^s  Point — Tjkut.  George  W.  Harrison, 

6  thirty-two  pounders  of  57  cwt. 
3  thirty-two  pounders  of  51  cwt. 
3  thirty-two  pounders  of  42  cwt. 

SewaWs  Point — Commajider  Wm.  Lewis  Maury. 

6  nine-inch  guns,  ~^  Arrangements  have  been 

2  thirty-two  pounders  of  57  cwt.        >made  for  mounting  not 
2  thirty-two  pounders  of  27  cwt.      3  ^^^^  than  20  guns. 

LamherVs  Point — Lieut.  John  S.  Taylor. 
6  thirty-two  pounders  of  59  cwt. 

Barretts  Point — Lieutenant  J.  Pembroke  Jones. 
6  Thirty-two  pounders  of  57  cwt. 

Town  Point. 

Number  and  calibre  of  guns  not  reported.    Arrrangements 
have  been  made  for  mounting  five  guns. 

Pig''$  Point — Commander  R,  B.  Peguam. 

4  Eight  inch  guns  of  55  cwt. 
4  Thirty-two  pounders  of  42  cwt. 


FVigate  '^United States''^ — Receiving  Ship  ^ Commander  H hob, 

R.  ROOTES. 

Spar  Deck,  3  nine  inch  guns  of  9,000  pounds, 

Gun  Deck,  IG  thirty-two  pounders  of  51  cwt. 

In  addition  to  preparing  this  vessel,  as  a  school  ship  for  drill- 
ing the  men,  she  has  been  provided  with  the  above  armament 
for  the  defence  of  the  yard  and  the  gun  park,  at  St.  Helena. 

The  frigate  <'Merrimac"  has  been  raised,  and  is  now  in  Dry 
Dock,  at  Norfolk.  She  is  valued,  in  her  present  condition,  at 
not  less  than  $250,000. 

Arrangements  are  now  being  made  for  raising  the  sloops  of 
war  ''Jamestown"  and  ''Plymouth." 

Office  of  Naval  Detail  and  Equipmrnt, 
Richmond;  Ya.;  June  10;  1801. 


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(B.) 


LIST    OF    G-UNS 


Se7it  from  the  Norfolk  Navy  Yard  to  North  Carolina,  Tennessee j 
Louisiana  and  Georgia. 


NORTH  CAROLINA. 

2  Thirty-two  pounders  of  42  cwt. 

4  Thirty-two  pounders  of  27  cwt. 

4  Twenty-four  pounders  of  31  cwt. 
20  Thirty-two  pounders  of  61  cwt. 
10  Thirty-two  pounders  of  57  cwt. 
10  Thirty-two  pounders  of  46  cwt. 
10  Eight-inch  guns  of  63  cwt. 
20  Thirty-two  pounder  carronades  17  or  18  cwt. 
80  Guns. 


TENNESSEE. 

10  Thirty-two  pounders  of  42  cwt. 
32  Thirty-two  pounders  of  61  cwt. 
42  Guns. 

10  Forty-two  pounders  of  70  cwt.  were  also  sent  from  Rich* 
tnond. 


LOUISIANA. 

8  Eight-inch  guns  of  63  cwt. 
1  Nine  inch  gun  of  9,000  pounds. 
8  Thirty-two  pounders  of  33  cwt. 
4  Thirty-two  pounders  of  27  cwt. 
21  Guns. 


GEORGIA. 
2  Thirty- two  pounders  of  27  cwt. 


[DOC.  NO.  XXXVL] 


SUPPLEMENTAL 


MESSA.aE 


FROM  THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


SHOWING  THE 


MILITARY  AND  NAVAL  PREPARATIONS 


FOR  THE 


DEFE^XE  OF  THE  STATE  OF  VIRGLNIA. 


44 


[Doo.  No.  36.] 


MESSAGE. 


Executive  Department, 
November  16,  1861. 
Gentlemen  of  the  Convention: 

On  the  17ih  day  of  June  last,  I  transmitted  to  ynu  a  commu- 
nication, accompanied  by  sundry  documents,  intended  to  show 
what  Virginia  had  done  in  the  way  of  preparation,  and  also  what 
she  had  dime  in  aiding  the  successful  prosecution  of  the  war  in 
■which  we  are  now  engaged.  In  this  snpplerrient  to  that  com- 
munication, I  propose  to  continue  the  history  and  to  bring  dowa 
her  action  to  the  present  time.  This  course  is  rendered  neces- 
sary in  consequence  of  the  fact  that  evil-disposed  persons  in  our 
midst,  claiming  to  be  Virginians  by  birth,  have  misrepresented 
facts  and  distorted  truth,  with  a  view  of  injuring  the  public 
authorities  in  popular  estimation,  and  disparaging  the  efforts 
made  by  the  Commonwealth  to  advance  the  common  cause. 
The  authorities  are  content  with  a  reference  to  the  record,  and  by 
that,  they  are  wilhng  to  allow  Vu'ginia  to  be  judged,  and  her 
claims  to  prompt,  patriotic  and  efficient  action  to  be  decided. 

The  paper  herewith  transmitted  from  the  Ordnance  Depart- 
ment of  the  Stale,  under  the  energetic  and  intelligent  adminis- 
tration of  Col.  Dimmock,  will  show  the  issues  of  arms,  equip- 
ments and  munitions  of  war,  since  the  14ih  day  of  June  last,  to 
the  present  time.  This  report  completes  that  branch  of  the  his- 
tory of  the  operations  of  the  State,  and  to  it  any  Virginian  can 
refer  with  the  proudest  satisfaction.     (See  Appendix  G.) 

The  amount  expended  by  the  State  for  war  purposes  since  the 
secession  of  Virginia,  exceeds  six  millions  of  dollars.  Every 
demand  against  her  has  been  promptly  considered  and  disposed 
of  by  the  Auditing  Board,  and  it  is  a  source  of  infinite  satisfac- 
tion to  me  to  know,  that  every  demand  has  been  paid  on  presen-  • 
tation  at  the  Treasury.  The  Auditing  Board  are  especially  de- 
serving of  the  thanks  of  the  Convention  for  the  zeal,  industry 
and  faithfulness  with  which  their  onerous  and  important  duties 
have  been  discharged. 

An  ordinance  of  the  Convention,  passed  April  the  17th,  1861, 
instructed  the  Executive  to  ''invite  all  efficietU  and  worthy  Vir- 


4  [Doc.  No.  86.] 

ginians  and  residents  of  Virginia,  in  tlic  army  and  na^T  of  the 
United  States,  therefrom,  and  to  enter  the  service  of  Virginia, 
assigning  to  tliem  such  nmk  as  will  not  reverse  tlie  relative  rank 
held  by  them  in  the  United  States  service,  and  will,  at  least,  be 
equivalent  thereto,"  And  by  an  ordinance  passed  April  the  oOth, 
1801,  yon  extended  the  invitation  to  "officers  in  the  revenue  ser- 
vice and  cnast  survey  service  of  the  United  States."  In  accor- 
dance with  the  instructions  contained  in  those  ordinances,  invi- 
tations W(!re  extended  by  me  to  the  several  classes  of  officers  there- 
in referred  to,  and  many  have  presented  themselves — have  been 
accepted  and  assigned  to  positions  in  the  Virginia  service.  When 
the  Convention  was  agreed  upon  between  the  State  and  the  Con- 
federate Government,  no  provision  was  made  for  these  officers, 
and  the  consequence  is  that  some  officers  of  each  of  these  classes 
hold  no  commissions  in  the  Confederate  service.  They  are  of 
course  receiving  tlieir  pay  regularly  from  the  State  treasury. 
As  your  ordinances  have  pledged  the  faith  of  Virginia  to  provide 
for  these  officers — a  pledge  given  under  the  most  solemn  circum- 
stances— I  feel  persuaded  that  it  will  be  redeemed.  I  bring  the 
matter  to  your  attention  for  such  action,  as  in  your  wisdom,  may 
be  deemed  proper. 

It  is  important  that  some  action  shall  be  taken  at  the  earliest 
moment  to  put  down  the  growing  evil  of  extortion,  almost  uni- 
versally prevalent  throughout  the  State.  I  desire  that  all  branches 
of  business  shall  be  fairly  and  justly  remunerative;  that  the 
farmer,  the  merchant,  the  mechanic,  shall  receive  good  profits 
on  whatever  they  may  have  to  sell.  The  questioir  is  no  longer 
one  of  fiir  profit,  but  it  has  become  a  question  of  how  much  can 
be  extorted  Cor  a  necessary  article  from  the  people.  All  things 
necessary  for  the  comfort  and  support  of  the  volunteers,  who  are 
exposing  themselves  in  the  public  service  and  risking  their  lives 
and  health  in  defence  of  our  honor  and  independence,  have 
been  run  up  to  an  almost  incredible  price.  All  things  necessary 
for  the  comfort  and  support  of  their  families,  are  run  up  iti  the 
same  way.  Unless  something  shall  be  done  by  yon  speedily  to 
strangle  this  evil  of  extortion,  a  vast  deal  of  suifering,  will  be 
entailed  upon  the  country.  When  the  Legislature  assembles 
much  of  the  mischief  will  have  been  done,  and  hence  my  appeal 
to  the  Convention  to  interfere. 

The  volunteer  who  receives  only  eleven  dollars  per  month  for 
his  services,  cannot  afford  to  supply  his  tlimily  witli  salt  at  from 
twenty  to  twent\'-five  dollars  per  sack,  and  shoes,  clothing,  &c., 
in  like  proportions.  Men  who  are  neither  contributing  physical 
nor  pecuniary  aid  to  the  prosecution  of  the  war,  should  not  be 
allowed  to  reap  exorbitant  profits.  1  suggest,  therefore,  with 
great  respect,  that  this  subject  should  claim  early  consid,eratiou. 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  5 

The  terms  of  service  of  most  of  our  volunteers  will  expire  in 
the  months  of  April,  May  and  June  next,  and  1  call  your  atten- 
tion to  the  fact,  that  some  action  on  your  part  may  be  tai^eii  to 
supply  tiieir  [)laces.  The  war  must  be  fought  out,  and  to  do  so 
successfully  we  must  keep  up  our  army  and  provide  for  its  con- 
tinuance ill  the  field,  until  our  independence  is  fully  recognized 
by  our  old  associates  under  the  Federal  Government. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  LETCHER, 


[Doc.  No.  36.] 


(APPENDIX  G.) 


Retui-n  of  Issues  of  Ordnance  and  Ordnance  Stores,  Small 
Anns  and  Ammunition,  c^'c,  from  Virginia  State  Armory j 
beginning  \Uh  June,  and  ending  \st  November,  1861. 


June  14,  1861. 

Major  Harman — Staunton,  for  Govertior  Wise. 

.50  Virginia  Flint-lock  Muskets, 
434  Virginia  Sabres, 
434  Belts  for  same. 

June  14,  1861. 

Colonel  B.  S.  Ewell — Williamsburg. 

4  Six-pounder  Iron  Guns,  mounted, 
4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
4  Hand  Spikes, 
2  Worms  and  Staves, 
4  Lint  Stocks, 
4  i*ort-fir(3  Stocks, 
4  Prolouges, 
4  Water  Buckets, 
4  Tar  Buckets, 
4  Sponge  Buckets^ 
16  Bricoles, 
8  Haversacks, 
4  Port-fire  Cases, 
4  Tube  Pouches, 
8  Thumb  Stalls, 
4  Priming  Wires, 
4  Gunner's  Gimlets. 

June  15,  1861. 

Captain  Kfmper — Artillery,  Manassas  Junctioii. 

4  Six-pounder  Caissons, 
4   Water  Buckets, 
4  Tar  Buckets. 


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JunelT,  1S61. 

Lieut.  Alston,  C.  S.  A. — Baptist  College,  Richmond. 

25  Fliiit-lork  Muskets  with  Bayonets  and  Scab- 
bards, 
25  Cartridge  Boxes  and  Belts. 

to 

June  17,  1861. 

Captain  Saunders — Confederate  States  Laboratory. 

4  Priming  Wires, 
8  Thumb  Stalls. 

June  17,  1861. 

Colonel  Preston — Virginia  Military  Institute. 

1  Elevating  Screw. 

June  17, 1861. 

Colonel  Conn. 

200  Rifle  Flints, 

200  Old  Virginia  Rifles. 

June  17,  1861. 

Captain  John  Taylor — Hazlewood  Volunteers,  Camp  Howy, 
Culpeper  Court  House. 

62  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
62  Percussion  Muskets, 
62  Cartridge  Boxes, 
62  Cartridge  Box  Belts, 
62  Waist  Plates. 

June  18,  1861. 

Captain  Frobel — Wise  Legion,  Louisa  Court  House. 

64  Flint-lock  Pistols, 

64  Extra  Flints, 

50  Sabres, 

60  Sabre  Belts. 

June  18,  1861. 

General  Beauregard — Manassas. 

6  Tangent  Scales. 


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June  18, 1861.  .', 

Major  Harman — Staunton,  for  General  Wise. 

1  Six- pounder  Caisson, 
1  Water  Bucket, 
1  Tar  Bucket. 

June  19, 1861. 

Captain  Briggs — Greenville  Guard,  Jamestown, 

80  Cartridge  Boxes  and  Belts, 
80  Waist  Plates  and  Belts. 

June  19,  1861. 

Captain   J.    W.    Timberlake — Greenwood  Depot,   Albemarle 
Rangers,  of  Alhemaiie  County. 

10  Virginia  Percussion  Rifles, 

10  Tnited  States  Percussion  Pistols, 

64  Sabres  and  Belts. 

June  19, 1861. 

Major  Randolph — Yorktown. 

12  Lanterns, 
12  Water  Buckets, 
12  Tin  Buckets, 
6  Halters, 


1  Swingle-tree, 

4  Spare  Poles, 

1  Hames, 

1  Four-horse  Set  Artillery  Harness. 

June  20, 1861 

Captain  Marye — Hamdcn  Artillery, 

Richmond. 

4  Six-ponnder  Brass  Camion 

,  mounted, 

4  Water  Buckets, 

4  Sponge  Buckets, 

4  Tar  Buckets, 

4  Prolouges 

16  Bricoles, 

8  Hand  Spikes, 

8  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

4  Lint  Stocks, 

4  Port- fire  Stocks, 

4  Six-pounder  Caissons, 

4  Water  Buckets, 

4  Tar  Buckets, 

4  Four  horse    Seta  Artillery 

Harness,  without 

Halters. 

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June  21, 1861.  jI 

Captain  Hollixs — Fredericksburg. 
135  8abres, 
15  kSabres  and  Belts. 

June  24,  1801. 

Captain  Scott — Provisional  Army.' 

1  Pair  Percussion  Pistols  and  Holsters,  (loaned.) 

June  21,  1861. 

Bishop  PoLK — Nasliville ,^  Tennessee. 

18  Six-pounder  Iron  Cannon,  not  mounted, 

2  Twelve-pounder  Iron  Cannon,  not  mounted. 

June  24,  1861. 

Colonel  Blanton  Duxcan — Care  of  Assistant   Quartermaster 
Kixci,  Winchester. 

300  Cartridge  Boxes  and  Belts, 
300  Cap  Pouches  and  Belts. 

June  24, 1861. 

Captain  Kirby — Wise  Legion  Artilleri/. 

32  Artillery  Sabres. 

June  25,  1861. 

General  Garnett — Care  of  Major  Harman,  Staunton. 

2  Six-pounder  Tron  Cannon,  mounted, 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

4  Hand  Spikes, 

2  Lint  Stocks, 

1  Worm  and  Slaves, 

1  Port- fire  Stock, 

2  Prnloiifrps, 

2  Tar  JBuckets, 

2   Water  Buckets, 

2  Sponec  Buckets, 

8  Bricoles, 

4  Haversacks, 

2  Tube  Pouches, 

2  Port-fire  Cases, 

4  Thumb  Stalls, 

2  Gunner's  Gimlets, 

2  Priming  Wires, 

2  Vent  Pouches, 

4  Four-horse  Sets  Artilleiy  Harness. 


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June  25, 1861. 

Colonel  Radford — Maiiassas  Junction. 

36  Virginia  Sabres  and  Bolts, 

27  United  State  Cavalry  Sabres  and  Belts. 

June  25, 1861. 

Major  ToMLiN — West  Point. 

2  United  States  Percussion  Pistols, 

1  Pair  Cavalry  Holsters. 

June  25, 1861. 

General  Beauregard — Manassas. 

6  Tangent  Scales. 

June  25,  1861. 

Captain  Mayre — Haniden  ArtiUery,  of  Richmond. 

16  Halters. 

June  25,  1861 . 

Captain  Kirby — Wise\Legio7^  ArtiUenj. 

33  Old  Virginia  Sabres. 

June  27,  1861. 

Captain  Isaacson — Washington  Artillery,  of  New\Orlcans. 

3  Four-horse  Sets  Artillery  Harness,  complete. 

June  27,  1861. 

Lieut.  Col.  EwELL — Fort  Magruder,  near  Willia?nsburg. 

2  Twelve-pounder  Iron  Guns,  mounted, 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
4  Hand  Spikes, 

2  Lmt  Stocks, 
2  Port- fire  Stocks, 
2  AVater  Buckets, 
2  Tar  Buckets, 
2  Sponge  Buckets, 
2  Prolouges, 
8  Bhcoies, 


12  [Doc.  No.  36.] 

Lieutenant  Colonel  Ewell — Continued.  •(•. 

4  Haversacks, 
2  Tube  Pouches, 
2  Portfire  Cases, 

1  "Worm  and  Stave, 

2  Priming  Wires, 

2  Cunner's  Gimlets, 

2  A  ent  Punches, 

4  Tlmml)  Stalls, 

2  Twelve-pounder  Caissons, 

2  Water  P)Uckets, 

2  Tar  Buckets. 

June  26,  1861. 

Cpptain  DooLKv — Montgomery  Guard,  1st  Regiment  Virginia 
Volunteers,  Manassas  Junction, 

25  Cap  Pouches  without  Belts. 

June  29,  1S61. 

Captain  Kirby — Wise  Legion,  Artillery, 

SO  Halters. 

July  1,1861. 

Captain  Kiunv —  Wise  Legion,  Artillery, 

10  Four-horse  Sets  Wagon  Harness, 
9  Riding  Saddles, 
9  Bridles. 

July  1,1861. 

Captain  Brext — Fluvanna  Artillery,  Baptist  College. 

2  Six-pounder  Iron  Cannon,  mounted, 

4  Hand  Spikes, 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

1  Worm  and  Stave, 

2  Lint  Storks, 

2  l*ort-firc  Stocks, 
2  Prolougcs, 
2  Water  Buckets, 
2  Sponge  Buckets, 
2  Tar  Buckets, 
8  Bricoles, 
4  Haversacks, 
2  Tube  Pouches, 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  13 

Captain  Brent — Continued. 

2  Port- fire  Cases, 
4  Thumb  Stalls, 
2  Priming  Wires, 
2  Vent  Punches, 
2  Gunner's  Gimlets. 

July  1,  1S61. 

]\Iajor  Walton —  Washington  Artillery,  of  New  Orleans. 

1  Travelling  Forge, 

1  Battery  Wagon. 

.Tuly2,  1S61. 

Captain  Thomas  G.  Pollock — Wise  Skirmishers,  Letrisburg. 

41  Virginia  Flint  Lock  Rifles, 

12  A^irginia  Percussion  Lock  Rifles. 

July  2,  186L 

Major  Randolph — Yorktown. 

6  Six-pounder  Caissons. 

July  2,  186L 

Captain  W.  E.  Tanner — Tredegar  Battalion. 
20  Virginia  Flint  Lock  Muskets. 

July  2,  186L 

Captain  Brent — Fluvanna  Artillery. 

2  Six- Pounder  Caissons,  complete, 
2  Water  Buckets, 

2  Tar  Buckets. 


July  2,  1861 


Lieutenant  Maury. 
1  Sabre  Scabbard  and  Belt. 


July  2,  1861. 

Lieutenant  Smith — Confederate  States''  Laboratory. 
500  Barrels  Cannon  Powder. 


14  [D3C.  Xo.  36.] 

July  3,  1S61. 

Captain  P.  B.  Stanard — Thomas  Artillery. 

2  Tar  Buckets, 
6  Haversacks, 
1  Tube  Pouch, 

1  Port-firc  Case, 
16  Bricoles, 

8  Thumb  Stalls. 

Julys,  1S61. 

Captain  Marye — HajJiden  Artillery, 

S  Haversacks, 

3  Tube  Pouches, 
8  Thumb  Stalls, 

4  Priming  Wires, 

5  Gunner's  Gimlets. 

July  3,  1861. 

Capt.  Isaacson —  Washington  Artillery,  of  New  Orleans. 

2  Six-pounder  Hand  Spikes, 
2  Worms  and  Staves, 

1  Tar  Bucket, 

4  Prolouges, 
8  Haversacks, 

5  Tube  Pouches, 
20  Thumb  Stalls, 

6  Gunner's  Gimlets, 

2  Priming  Wires. 

July  2,  1861,  to  Augusts. 

Captain  Andrews — Marylatid  Artillery. 

1  Twelve-pounder  Brass  Howitzerj  mounted, 

2  Hand  Spikes, 

1  Worm  and  Stave, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
1  Port-fire  Stock, 

1  Lint  Stock, 

t  l^rimiiig  Wire, 

1  Vent  Punch, 

1  Gunner's  Gimlet, 

1  Tow  Hook, 

1  Tar  Bucket, 

1  Sponge  Bucket, 


[Doc.  NoJ36.]  15 

Captain  Andrews — Continued. 

1  Regular  Caisson, 
1  Spare  Wheel, 
1  Spare  Pole, 
1  Tar  Bucket, 

1  Twelve-pounder  Brass  Rifle  Gun,  mounted, 
1  Worm  and  Staff, 

1  Twelve-pounder   Light,  Brass,   Smooth-bore 
Gun,  mounted, 

1  Worm  and  Stafl", 
4  Hand  Spikes, 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

2  Port-lire  Stocks, 
2  Lint  Stocks, 

2  Priming  Wires, 

2  Gunner's  Gimlets, 

2  Vent  Punches, 

2  Tow  Hooks, 

2  Tar  Buckets, 

2  Sponge  Buckets, 

2  Regular  Caissons, 

2  Spare  Wheels, 

2  Spare  Poles, 

2  Tar  Buckets, 

1  12- pounder  Smooth-bore  Brass  Gun,  mounted, 

1  Worm  and  StalT, 

2  Hand  Spikes, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

1  Port- fire  Stock, 

1  Lint  Stock, 

1  Tar  Bucket, 

1  Sponge  Bucket, 

1  Tow  Hook, 

]   Gunner's  Gimlet, 

1  Priming  Wire, 

1  Vent  Punch, 

1  Caisson,  (Regular,) 

1  Tar  Bucket, 

1  Spare  Wheel, 

1  Spare  Pole, 

1  Twelve-pounder  Brass  Howitzer,  mounted, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
2  Hand  Spikes, 

1  Worm  and  Staff, 
1  IMrt-fire  Slock, 
1    Lint  Stork, 
X  Tar  Bucket, 


16  [Doc.  No.  3G.] 

Captain  Andrews — Continued. 
1  Sponge  Hucket, 
1  Priming  Wire, 
1  Gunner's  Gimlet, 
1  Vent  Puuch, 
1  Tow  Hook, 
]   Regular  Caisson, 
1  Spare  Wheel, 
1  Sparc  Pole, 
1  Tar  Bucket, 

1  'I'welve-pounder  Brass  Howitzer,  mounted, 

2  Hand  Spikes, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

1  Worm  and  Staff, 

1  Port- fire  Stock, 

1  liint  Stock, 

1  Tar  Bucket, 

1  vSponge  Bucket, 

1  Priming  Wire, 

1  Gunner's  Gimlet, 

1   Tow  Hook, 

1  Regular  Caisson, 

1  Spare  AVIieel, 

1  Spare  Pole, 

1  Tar  Bucket, 

Julys,  1861. 

Captain  Cabell — Fayette  Artilleri/,  Gloucester  Point. 

4  Spare  Poles. 

July  3;  1861. 

Captain  Brent — Fluvanna  Artilleri/. 

2  Six-pounder  Caissons,  (complete,) 
2  Water  Buckets, 

2  Tar  Buckets. 

July  5, 1861. 

Captain  Harrow — lOth  Regiment  Va.  Militia,  Fredericksburg* 


July  4,  1861. 


50  Flint  Lock  Muskets  and  Bayonets. 


George  E.  Taylor. 

1  Pair  Percussion  Pistols,  (loaned,) 

1  Old  Sword, 

1  Pair  Cavalry  Pistolsi 


[Doc.  No. 

36.] 

July  5, 

1S61. 

Captain  Brent — PluvannalArtillery . 

2  Six-pounder  Iron 

Guns, 

(mounted;) 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

4  Hand  Spikes. 

2  Lint  Stocks, 

2  Port-fire  Stocks, 

2  Prolouges, 

8  Bricoles, 

2  Tube  Pouches, 

• 

2  Port-fire  Cases, 

4  Haversacks, 

2  Priming  Wires, 

2  Vent  Pouches, 

2  Gunner's  Gimlets 

) 

4  Thumb  Stalls, 

2  Water  Buckets, 

2  Tar  Buckets, 

2  Sponge  Buckets. 

July  5, 

1861. 

17 


Navif  Bureau. 
100  Barrels  Cannon  Powder. 

July  5,  1861. 

Major  Walton —  Washington  Artillery,  of  New  Orleans. 

9  Four-horse  Sets  of  Artillery  Harness,  complete. 

July  5,  1861 . 

Major  Meeims — Letcher  Guard,  I8th  Georgia  Regiineni. 

1  Pair  Cavalry  Holsters. 

July  8,  18G1. 

General  Garnett — Care  of  Major  Harmany  Siau?iion. 

2  Six-pounder  Iron  Guns,  mounted. 
4  Hand  Spikes, 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
2  Lint  Stocks, 
2  Port -fire  Stocks, 

1  Worm  and  Staff, 

2  Prolouges, 

2  Water  Buckets, 
2  Tar  Buckets, 
46 


18  [Doc.  No.  36.] 

General  Garxett — Continued. 

2  Sponge  Buckets, 

8  Bricoleo, 

4  Haversacks, 

2  Tube  Pouches, 

2  Port-fire  Cases, 

2  Gunner's  Gimlets. 

2  Vent  Pouches, 

2  Priming  Wires, 

2  Six- pounder  Caissons, 

2  Tar  Buokflts, 

2  Water  Buckpts, 

2  Four-horse  Sets  Artillery  Harness, 

2  Four-horse  Sets  Wagon  Harness, 

2  Spare  Poles. 

July  9,  1S61. 

Captain  Andrews — Maryland  Artillery. 

1  Travelling  Forge  and  Implements, 
1  Battery  Wagon  and  Implements. 

July  6,  16S1. 

Captain  Kirby — Care  of  Major  Harfna7i,  Siaufiton. 

69  Horse  Brushes. 


July  9,  1861. 


General  Magruder. 

1  Battery  Wagon, 

4  Sets  Wagon  Harness,  (four  Horses  t6'Set.) 


July  9,  1S61. 


July  9,  1861. 


Captain  Kirby. 
4  Four-horse  Sets  Artillery  Harness. 

Lieutenant  Smith — Kirby  Ai'tillery. 
1  Sabre  and  Belt. 

Lieutenant  Pairo — Kirby  Artillery. 
1  Sabre  and  Belt. 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  19 

July  10, 1861. 

General  Johnston —  Winchester. 

1,200  United  States  Flint  Lock  Muskets  and  Bayo- 
nets. 

July  10,  1861. 

Captain  Neblett — Pig^s  Point. 

100  United  States  Flint  Lock  Muskets, 

100  Cartrida:e  Boxes, 

600  Yards  Webbing, 

100  Bayonet  Scabbards, 

100  Waist  Belts, 

400  Flints. 

July  10, 1861. 

Captain  P.  B.  Stanard — Thomas  Artillery. 

1  Pendulum  Hausse  and  Bracket. 


July  10,  1861. 


July  10,  1661. 


General  Magruder — Yorktowyi. 

2  Twelve-pounder  Iron  Guns,  mounted, 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

2  Worms  and  Staves, 

4  Hand  Spikes, 

2  Prolouges, 

2  Water  Buckets, 

2  Sponge  Buckets, 

2  Tar  Buckets, 

8  Bricoles, 

4  Haversacks, 

2  Tube  Pouches, 

2  Port-fire  Cases, 

4  Thumb  Stalls, 

2  Priming  Wires, 

2  Vent  Punches, 

2  Gunner's  Gimblets, 

2  Lint  Stocks, 

2  Port-fire  Stocks. 


General  Johnston —  Wifichcster. 
1  Travelling  Forge. 


20  [Doc.  No.  36.] 

Captain  P.  G.  Coghlan. 
1  Sabre  and  Belt. 

Captain  Baldwin. 

1  Sabre  and  Belt. 

July  11,1861. 

Captain  Guy — Goochland  Artillery,  Baptist  College, 

4  Six-pounder  Iron  Guns,  mounted, 
8  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
8  Hand  Spikes, 
4  Prolouges, 

2  Worms  and  Staves, 
4  Lint  Stocks, 

4  Port-fire  Stocks, 
4  Water  Buckets, 
4  Tar  Buckets, 
4  Sponge  Buckets, 
16  Bricoles, 
8  Haversacks, 
4  Tube  Pouches, 
4  Port-fire  Cases, 
8  Thumb  Stalls, 
4  Priming  Wires, 
4  Gunner's  Gimlets, 
4  Vent  Punches. 

July  11,1851. 

Colonel  Pryor — Ca7np  Cook,  near  Smithjicld,  Isle  of  Wights 

300  Flint  Lock  Muskets  and  Bayonets, 
900  Flints. 

July  11,1861. 

Capt.  T.  J.  Epps — 415/  Regiment  Virginia  Volunteers,  Norfolk. 

75  Flint  Lock  Muskets  and  Bayonets, 
300  Flints. 

July  11,1861. 

General  Wise — Care  of  Major  Hannan,  Stau7itofi, 

250  Cartridge  Boxes, 
100  Bayonet  Scabbards, 
200  Waist  Plates, 
600  Yards  Webbing. 


[Doo.  No.  36.]  21 

July  12,  1861. 

General  Magruder — Yorktown. 

2  Twelve-pounder  Caissons, 
2  Water  Buckets, 
2  Tar  Buckts. 

July  12,  1861. 

Colonel  Hodges — Jamestoion  Island. 

250  Bayonets. 

July  13,  1861. 

Colonel  Samuel  Jones — Ordnance  Office,  Manassas, 

1,000  Virginia  Flint  Lock  Muskets, 
1,000  Bayonets, 
],000  Flints. 

^ulyl2,  1861. 

General  Magruder. 

1  Travelling  Forge  and  Implements, 
1  Four-horse  Set  Artillery  Harness. 

July  15,  1861. 

Captain  Guy — Goochland  Artillery,  Baptist  College. 

361  Virginia  Flint  Lock  Muskets  and  Bayonets, 
361  Extra  Flints. 


July  17,  1861. 


General  Magruder —  Yorktowji. 

2  Twelve-pounder  Iron  Guns,  mounted, 
4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
4  Hand  Spikes, 

1  Worm  and  Staff, 

2  liint  Stocks, 

2  Port-fire  Stocks, 

2  Prolougcs, 

8  Bricoles, 

2  Water  Buckets, 

2  Tar  Buckets, 

2  Sponge  Buckets, 

4  Haversacks, 


22  [Doo.  No.  36.] 

General  Magruder — Continued. 
2  Tube  Pouches, 
2  Port-fire  Cases, 
4  Thumb  Stalls, 
2  Priming  Wires, 
2  Gunner's  Gimlets, 
2  Vent  Punches, 

2  Caissons,  ,   , 

2  Water  Buckets, 

2  Tar  Buckets. 

July  17,  1861. 

Major  Harman — Staunton. 

120  Percussion  Muskets  and  Bayonets. 

July  18,  1861. 

Major  Ward — Fort  Lowry,  Tappahannock . 

80  Flint  Lock  Muskets  and  Bayonets, 
300  Extra  Flints. 

July  19, 1861. 

Captain  T.  C.  Jordan — Commanding  Officer,  Jdjnestown  Island. 

100  Flint  Lock  Muskets  and  Bayonets, 
200  Extra  Flints. 

July  19,  1861. 

Navy  Department. 

100  Barrels  Cannon  Powder. 

July  19,  1861. 

Captain  Sands — Henrico  Artillery,  Jamestown  Island. 

3  Six-pounder  Iron  Guns,  mounted, 

1  Six- Pounder  Iron  Parrott  Gun,  mounted, 

4  Caissons, 

8  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
8  Hand  Spikes, 
4  Prolouges, 
4  Lint  Stocks, 
4  Port-fire  Stocks, 

2  Worms  and  Staves, 
8  Water  Buckets, 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  23 

Captain  Sands — Continued. 

8  Tar  Buckets, 
4  Sponge  Buckets, 
1(5  Bricoles, 
8  Haversacks, 
4  Tube  Pouches, 
4  Port-fire  Gases, 
8  Thumb  Stalls, 
4  Priming  Wires, 

4  Gunner's  Gimblets, 

5  Four-horse  Sets  Wagon  Harness. 

July  19, 1861. 

Captain  Guy — Goochland  Artillery . 

4  Tangent  Scales, 
2  Spare  Poles. 

July  22, 1861. 

Confederate  States  Ordnance  Store — Captain  Saunders. 

1  Prolouge. 


July20,  1S61. 


Captain  Leftwich — Jamestown. 
1  Dozen  Musket  Cones. 


July  23,  1861. 


Captain  Kirby — Wise  Legion. 

1  Twelve-pounder  Iron  Howitzer^  mounted, 
1  Twelve-pounder  iron  Caisson, 

3  Six-pounder  Caissons, 
8  Haversacks. 

8  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

4  Tube  Pouches, 
4  Port-fiie  Cases, 

16  Bricoles, 
4  Prolouges, 
4  Gunner's  Gimlets, 
4  Priming  Wires, 
8  Thumb  Stalls, 
8  Water  Buckets, 
8  Tar  Buckets, 
8  Sponge  Buckets, 
4  Axes, 


24  [Doc.  No.  36.] 

Captain  Kirdy — Continued. 
4  Shovels, 
4  Mattocks, 
8  Hand  Spikes, 
4  Port- fire  Slocks, 


4  l^int  Stocks, 

2  Worms  and  Staves. 


July  21,  1861. 


General  Magruder. 

2  Four-horse  Sets  Artillery  Harness, 

3  Foiir-horse  Sets  Wagon  Harness, 

2  21  Pounder  Iron  Howitzers,  mounted, 
2  21  Pounder  Caissons, 

4  Haversacks, 

2  Port-fire  Cases, 
2  Tube  Pouches, 
•4  Thumb  Stalls, 
2  Gunner's  Gimlets, 
2  Priming  Wires, 
8  Bricoles, 
2  Prolouges, 
4  Water  IJuckcts, 
2  Sponge  Buckets, 
4  Tar  Buckets, 
2  Pick  Axes, 
2  Axes, 
2  Shovels. 

July27,  ISCl. 

Confederate  Ordnance  Store. 

1  Pair  Cavalry  Holsters. 

.luly  27,  1861. 

Captain  C.  M.  Braxtox — FredtricLshurg  Artillcnj,  cross  roads 
near  A(/uia  Creel:. 

4  Four-horse  sets  Artillery  Harness. 

July  27,  ISGl. 

Captain  Maurv — Confederate  States  Navij,  Nurfullc, 

10  Barrels  Blasting  Powder. 

July  27,  1861. 

Captain  C.  M.  Braxton — Fredericksburg  Arlilkry, 

1  Six-poundcr  Tangent  Scale. 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  35 

July  27,  1861. 

Captain  Andrews — Marylajid  Artillery. 

8  Four-horse  Sets  Artillery  Harness, 
14  Water  Buckets. 

July  29,  1861. 

Captain  Rosser — Wise  Brigade. 

14  Virginia  Cavalry  Sabres, 

9  United  States  Cavalry  Sabres, 
Old  Belts  for  same. 

July  30,  1S61. 

Colonel  Blanton  Duncan — Of  Kentucky. 

2  United  States  Percussion  Pistols, 
1  Pair  Holsters. 

August  I,  1861. 

Captain  Doyle — 95th  Regiment^  Willoughhy'^s  Point. 

7  JMusketoons, 
12  Cavalry  Sabres, 

8  Percussion  Pistols,  United  States, 
4  Pair  Holsters. 


August  2,  1861. 


General  Magruder. 


2  24-pounder  Iron  Howitzers,  mounted, 
2  TM'enty-four  Pounder  Caissons, 
4  Haversacks, 
2  Tube  Pouches, 
2  Port-fire  Cases, 
8  Bricoles, 
2  Prolouges, 
2  Gunner's  Gimlets^ 
2  Priming  Wires, 
4  Water  Bnrkets, 
2  Sjwnge  Buckets, 
4  Tor  Buckets, 
2  Axes, 
2  Mattorkj!. 
2  Shovel 8, 

4  Sponges  an-l  Rainmern, 
4  Haud  Spikes, 
47 


26  [Doc.  Xo.  3G.] 

General  MAcsunER — Continued. 
2  Lint  Storks, 
2  Port-fire  Stocks, 
8  Bricoles, 

1  Worm  and  Staff. 

August  2,  1861. 

Major  Ward — Fort  Lowry,  Tappahannock. 

2  Six  pounder  Gun  Carriages, 
4  Hand  Spikes, 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

2  1/int  Stocks, 

2  Port-fire  Stocks, 

2  Water  Buckets, 

2  Tar  Buckets, 

2  Sponge  Buckets, 

4  Haversacks, 

2  Port-fire  Cases, 

2  Tube  Pouches, 

8  Bricoles, 

2  Prolouges, 

2  Gunner's  Gimlets. 

2  Priming  Wires. 

August  2,1  SGI. 

Gen.  Chapman — Lcwishurg^  Virginia,  for  Co\.  Joel  McPiierso.v. 

860  Virginia  Flint  Lock  Muskets  and  Bayonets, 
640  U.  S.  Flint  Lock  Muskets  and  Baj^onets, 
1,500  Extra  Flints. 

August  3,  186  L 

Captain  Rosser —  Wise  Legion. 

36  Cavalry  Sabres  and  Belts, 

August  3,  1861. 

Captain  Lay — Powhatan   Troop,  Camp  Pickens. 

5  Pair  United  States  Percussion  Pistols, 
5  Pair  Holsters, 

4  Cavalry  Sabres  and  Belts, 

August  6,  1861. 

Col.  J.  R.  Chambliss — Norfolk,  \st  Regiment  Va.  Volunteers. 

25  Altered  Percussion  Muskets  and  Bayonets. 


[Doo.  No.  36.]  27 

August  6,  1861 . 

Captain  Wallace — Wise  Legion. 

67  Altered  Percussion  Muskets  and  Bayonets. 

August  7;  1861. 

Confederate  States  Laboratory. 

100  Kegs  Blasting  Powder, 
114  Half  Kegs  Sporting  Powder, 
100  Quarter  Kegs  Sporting  Powder. 

August  7,  1861. 

Colonel  S.  B.  Paul. 

1  Cavalry  Sabre  and  Belt. 

August  7;  1861. 

Captain  Andrews — Maryland  Artillei-y. 

4  Four-hnrse  Sets  Artillery  Harness, 

8  Extra  Saddles, 

8  Extra  Bridles, 
20  Extra  Halters, 
20  Extra  Whips, 
12  Haversacks, 

6  Tube  Pouches, 

6  Tube  Pouches, 

6  Port-fire  Cases, 
12  Thumb  Stalls, 
24  Bricoles, 

6  Prolouges, 

Augusts,  1861. 

Captain  Andrews. 

50  Mop  Blankets  for  Horses. 

Augusts,  1861. 

Captain  Doyle— 95M  Rcginietit,  Willoughby^s  Poi?it. 
3  Bayonets. 

Augusts,  1861. 

Captain  Rosser —  Wise  Legion. 

12  Flint-lock  Cavalry  Pistols, 
6  Pair  Cavalry  Holsters. 


28  [Doc.  Xo.  86.] 

August  9,  1861. 

Colonel  JoH.v  R.  Chambliss — 41.<f/  Regimrnt   llrgifua  Volun- 
teers, Noifol/c. 

20  Altered  Percussion  Muskets  and  Bayonets. 

August  9,  18G1. 

Captain  Avdrkws — Maryland  Artillery, 
44  Artillery  Valises. 
August  10. 

2  Four-horse  Sets  Artillery  Harness. 

August  10,  ISGl. 

Colonel  Wharton — Bojisack  Depot,  for  General  Floyd. 

600  Virginia  Flint-lock  Muskets  and  Bayonets, 
400  U.  S.  Flint-lock  Muskets  and  Bayonets, 
1,000  Extra  Flints. 

August  12,  1861. 

Captain  Andrews — Maryland  Artillery. 

6  Shovels, 
6  Axes, 
6  Mattocks, 
8  Extra  Halters. 

August  12,  1861. 

Captain  Wallace — Wise  Legion. 

5  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 

1  Cavalry  Sabre  and  Belt. 

August  12,  1861. 

General  Magruder. 

2  24  Pounder  Iron  Howitzers,  mounted, 
2  24  Ponnder  Caissons, 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

4  Hand  Spikes, 

2  Worms  and  Staves, 

2  Port-fire  Stocks, 

2  Lint  Stocks, 

2  Prolouges, 

2  Tube  Pouches, 

4  Haversacks, 

2  Port-lire  Cases, 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  29 

General  Magruder — Continued.  '^'"   '"^ 

2  Gunner's  Gimlets, 
2  Priming  Wires, 
4  Thumb  Stalls, 
8  Bricolcs, 
4  Water  Buckets, 
4  Tar  Buckets, 
2  Sponge  Buckets, 
2  Axes, 
2  Shovels, 
2  Mattocks. 


August  12,  1861. 

Captain  Guy — Goochland  Artillery. 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers. 

August  12, 1861. 

Lieutenant  Johnson — Norfolk  Light   Guard,  95th  Regiment 
Virginia  Militia. 

26  Pair  Cavalry  Holsters. 

August  13,  1861. 

Capt.  DAtiCF.— Powhatan  Artillery,  Camp  Magruder,  Richmoyid. 

4  Six-pounder  Iron  Cannon,  mounted, 
4  Six-pounder  Caissons, 
8  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
8  Hand  Spikes, 
4  Port-fire  Stocks, 
4  Lint  Stocks, 
8  Haversacks, 
4  Tube  Pouches, 
4  Port-fire  Cases, 
4  Gunner's  Gimlets, 
4  Priming  Wires, 
16  Bricoles, 
4  Prolougcs, 
8  Water  Buckets, 
4  Sponge  Buckets, 
8  Tar  Buckets, 
4  Axes, 
4  Shovels, 
4  Mattocks. 


30  [Doc.  No.  86.] 

August  13, 1861. 

Captain  Cocke — Fluvanna  Light  Artillery,  Camp  Magruder, 

Richmond. 


4  Six-pounder  Iron  Cannon,  mounted, 

4  Six-pounder  Caissons, 

8  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

2  Worms  and  Staves, 

8  Hand  Spiives, 

4  Jiint  Stocks, 

4  Port-fire  Stocks, 

8  Haversacks, 

4  Tube  Pouches, 

4  Port-fire  Cases, 

4  Gunner's  Gimlets, 

4  Priming  Wires, 

16  Bricoles, 

4  Prolouges, 

8  Water  Buckets, 

4  Sponge  Buckets, 

4  Tar  Buckets, 

«              4  Axes, 

4  Shovels, 

4  Mattocks, 

8  Thumb  Stalls. 

August  14, 1861. 

General  Magruder. 

6  Four-horse  Sets  Wagon  Harness. 

August  14,  1861. 

Captain  John  R.  Chambliss — Norfolk,  Virginia. 

20  Altered  Percussion  Muskets  and  Bayonets. 

August  15,1861. 

Captain  Andrews — Maryland  Artillery. 

6  Tow  Hooks, 
3  Bill  Hooks, 
3  Sabre  Belts. 

August  19,  1861. 

Captain  Wallace — Wise  Legion. 

10  Altered  Percussion  Muskets  and  Bayonets. 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  31 

August  19, 1861. 

Captain  Cabell — Fayette  Artillery,  Gloucester  Point. 

4  Tangent  Scales. 


't)^ 


August  19,  1861. 


General  Magruder. 


August  20. 


4  Twelve-pounder  Iron  Cannon,  not  mounted, 
16  Four-horse  Sets  Wagon  Harness, 
2  24-pounder  Iron  Howitzers,  mounted, 
4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
2  Lint  Stocks, 
2  Port-fire  Stocks, 
2  Prolouges, 

1  Worm  and  Staff, 
4  Haversacks, 

2  Tube  Pouches, 
2  Priming  Wires, 
8  Bricoles, 

4  Handspikes, 
2  Water  Buckets, 
2  Sponge  Buckets, 
2  Tar  Buckets, 
2  Port-fire  Cases, 
2  Gunner's  Gimlets, 
4  Tlnimb  Stalls. 


3  Twenty-four  Pounder  Howitzer  Caissons, 

2  Mattocks, 

3  Axes, 

2  Shovels, 

3  Water  Buckets, 
3  Tar  Buckets, 

3  Double  Bars, 

3  Spare  Poles, 

1  Regular  21-pounder  Howitzer  Caisson, 

1  Spare  A V heel, 

1  Spare  Pole, 

1  Water  Bucket, 

1  Tar  Bucket. 


August  20,  1861. 

Captain  Southall — Everett  Artillery,  Jajnestoun. 

1  Regular  24-pounder  Howitzer  Caisson, 
1  Spare  Wheel, 


32  [Doc.  jS^o.  36.] 

Captain  Soutii.^ll — Continued. 
1  Spare  Pole, 
1  Water  Bucket, 

1  Tar  Bucket. 

August  20,  1S61. 

Captain  Braxton — Fredericksburg  Artillery,  Cross  Roads,  near 

Aquia  Creek. 

4  Four-horse  Sets  Artillery  Harness. 

August  20,  1861. 

Captain  R.  L.  Walker — Aquia  Creek. 

2  Four-horse  Sets  Artillery  Harness,  complete. 

August  20,  1861. 

Col.  J.  R.  CiiAMBLiss — Alst  Regi??ie?it  Va.  Volunteers,  No7-f oik. 

60  Altered  Percussion  Muskets  and  Bayonets, 
70  Altered  Percussion  Muskets  and  Bayonets. 

August  20,  1861. 

Captain  Southall — Everett  Artillery,  Jamestown. 

1  24  Pounder  Iron  Howitzer,  mounted, 

1  Worm  and  Staff, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers^ 


1  Lint  Stock, 

]   Port-fire  Stock, 

1  Sponge  Bucket, 

1  Tar  Bucket, 

1  Water  Bucket, 

2  Haversacks, 

1  Port-fire  Case, 

1  Tube  Pouch, 

4  Bricoles, 

1  Prolouge, 

1  Gunner's  Gimlet, 

1  Priming  Wire, 

2  Thumb  Stalls. 

August  21,  1801. 

General  Magruder; 

2  24  Pounder  Iron  Howitzers^  mounted^ 

2  Worms  and  Staves, 

4  Handspikes, 

[Doc.  No.  36.]  33 

General  Magruder — Continued. 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

2  Lint  Stocks, 

2  Port-fire  Stocks, 

2  Water  Buckets, 

2  Tar  Buckets, 

2  Sponge  Buckets, 

2  Prolouges, 

4  Haversacks, 

2  Tube  Pouches, 

2  Port-fire  Cases, 

2  Vent  Punches, 

2  Gunner's  Gimlets, 

2  Priming  Wires, 

8  Bricoles, 

4  Thumb  Stalls. 

August  26,  1S61. 

Capt.  William  S.  Pennick — Daniel  Logan  Guard,  Camp  Lcc. 

54  United  States  Flint-lock  Muskets, 
54  Bayonets. 

August  26, 1861. 

Colonel  John  R.  Chambliss — ilst  Regiment,  Norfolk, 

60  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
60  Bayonets. 

August  27,  1861. 

Lieutenant  Minor — Navy  Department. 

100  Virginia  Fhnt-lock  Muskets, 
100  Bayonets  for  same. 

August  28,  1861. 

Col.  John  R.  Chambliss — 11^^  Regiment  Virginia  Volunteers^ 

Norfolk. 

60  Altered  percussion  Muskets, 
60  Bayonets  for  same. 

August  31,  1861. 

Captain  J.  G.  Parrish — Camp  Mercer,  mar  Fredericksburg . 

20  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
20  Bayonets. 
48 


34  [Doc.  No.  36.] 

August  31,  ISGl. 

Col.  John  R.  Chambliss — 41^^  Regiment  Virginia  Volunteers, 

Norfolk. 

40  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
40  Bayonets  for  same. 

August  31;  1861. 

Captain  N.  B.  French — Of  Mercer. 

1  United  States  Cavalry  Sabre  and  Belt. 

August  31,  186 1. 

Captain  R.  Lindsay  Walker — Cross  Roads,  near  Aquia  Greek. 

10  Sets  Four-horse  Artillery  Harness. 

September  3, 1861. 

Captain  J.  G.  Parrish — Camp  Mercer,  near  Aquia  Creek. 

45  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
45  Bayonets  for  same. 

September  3, 1861. 

Lieutenant  Minor — Navy  Department. 

400  Musket  Flints. 

September  5,  1861. 

Captain  Alexander — Ordnance  Officer,  Manassas. 

4  24-Pounder  Iron  Howitzers,  mounted, 
8  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

3  Worms  and  Staves, 
8  Hand  Spikes, 

4  Sponge  Buckets, 
4  Tar  Buckets, 

4  Water  Buckets, 

8  Haversacks, 

4  Tube  Pouches, 

4  Port- fire  Cases, 

4  Lint  Stocks, 

4  Port- fire  Stocks, 

4  Gnnnt'r'.s  Gimlets, 

8  Tliumb  Stalls, 

4  Priming  Wires, 

4  Prolouges, 

16  Bricoles. 


[Doo,  No.  36.]  35 

September  5,  1861. 

Major  GoRGAS,  C.  S.  A.— For  Capt.  J.  T.  S/iarj),  Nashville, 

Tennessee. 

1,000  Virginia  Flint-lock  Muskets, 
]  ,000  Bayonets  for  same. 

September  6,  1861. 

Captain  Alexander— 0/-c?«ance  Department,  Manassas. 

3  Wagon  Caissons  for  12-pounder  Howitzers, 
3  Water  Buckets, 
3  Tar  Buckets, 
3  Spare  Poles, 

1  12-pounder  Iron  Gun,  mounted, 

2  'l2-pounder  Brass  Guns,  mounted, 
21  Tow  Hooks, 

2  Vent  Punches, 

3  Proloiiges, 

2  Worms  and  Staves, 

6  Hand  Spikes, 

3  Lint  Stocks, 

3  Port-fire  Stocks, 

7  Pendulum  Hausses, 
7  Brackets, 

6  Haversacks, 
3  Tube  Pouches, 
6  Thumb  Stalls, 
3  Gunner's  Gimlets, 
3  Priming  Wires, 
12  Bricoles, 
3  Water  Buckets, 
3  Sponge  Buckets, 
3  Tar  Buckets, 
6  Sponges  and  Rammers. 

September  6,  1861. 

Lieutenant  Minor— A'ayy  Department. 

100  Cartridge  Boxes  and  Belts, 
100  Bayonet  Scabbards  and  Belts. 

September  6,  1861.  ^ 

Major  N.  Tyler —  Wise  Legion. 

40  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
40  Bayonets  for  same. 


36  [Doc.  No,  86.] 

September  6,  1861. 

Lieutenant  Dickinson — Kanawha  Rangers,  5th  Regiment  Ftr- 
ginia  (Javalry. 

47  Flint-lork  Pistols, 

14  Ignited  States  Percussion  Pistols. 

September  6,  1861. 

Lieu  tenant- Colonel  Davis. 

1  Pair  United  States  Percussion  Pistols, 
1  Pair  Holsters, 
1  Cavalry  Sabre. 

September  9,  1861. 

Colonel  John  R.  Chambliss  —41s/  Regiment   Virginia  Volun- 
teers, Norfolk. 

95  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
95  Bayonets  for  same. 

September  9,  1S61. 

Confederate  States  Armory. 

1  Can  Patent  Grease. 

September  9,  1861. 

Captain  Alexander — Ordnance  Officer,  Manassas. 

2  Twenty-four  Pounder  Caissons, 
2  Spare  Poles, 

2  Spare  Wheels, 
2  Tar  Buckets, 

2  Water  Buckets, 

September  10,  ISOl. 

Captain   Thomas  J.    KirkpatriCk — Amherst   Artillery,  Camp 
Magrudcr,  Richmond. 

.3  Long  Six- pounder  Iron  Guns,  mounted, 
()  Sponges  and  Jlauimers, 
G  Hand  Spikes, 
0      2  Worms  and  Staves, 

3  Lint  Stocks, 
3  Prolouges, 

3  Port-fire  Stocks, 
3  Vent  l^inches^ 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  37 

Captain  Thomas  J.  Kirkpatrick — Continued. 
13  Bricoles, 
3  Port- fire  cases, 

5  Thumb  Stalls, 
3  Priming  Wires, 

3  Gunner's  Gimlets, 
3  Water  Buckets, 
3  Tar  Buckets, 
3  Sponge  Buckets, 

(These  guns  were  subsequently  returned 
\vith  some  of  the  implements.) 

September  10,  1861. 

Major  TYh^R—Wise  Legion,  care  Quartermaster  M.  Boyer, 
Jackson,  River. 

80  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
80  Bayonets. 

September  11,  1861. 

Captain  Walter  D.  Leake — Turner  Artillery  of  Goochland 
County,  Camp  Magruder^  Richmond. 

3  Long  Six- pounder  Iron  Guns,  mounted, 

6  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
6  Hand  Spikes, 

2  Worms  and  Staves, 

3  Port-fire  Stocks, 
3  Port-fire  Cases, 
6  Thumb  Stalls, 
3  Priming  Wires, 

3  Gunner's  Gimlets, 
3  Prolouges, 
12  Bricoles, 
3  Vent  Punches, 
3  Water  Buckets, 
3  Tar  Buckets, 
3  Sponge  Buckets, 
3  Lint  Stocks. 

(One  of  these  Six-pounders  was  subsequently 
returned.) 

September  11,  1861. 

Captain  Alexander — Ordnance  Officer,  Manassas. 

5  Vent  Punches, 

I  Twenty-four  Pounder  Caisson; 


88  [Doc.  No.  36.] 

Captain  Alexander — Continued. 
1  Tar  Bucket, 
1  Water  Bucket, 
1  Spare  Pole, 
1  Spare  Wheel. 

September  12,  1861. 

Captain  Andrews — Manjland  Artillery^  Brook  Station,  near 

Aquia  Creek. 


2 

Sponges  and  Rammers, 

1 

Saddle, 

7 

Bridles, 

2 

Pair  Traces, 

0 

Cavalry  Belts. 

September  12,  1S61. 

Captain  W.  Latham — Nelson  Artillery. 

3 

Six-ponnder  Iron  Guns,  mounted, 

6 

Sponges  and  Rammers, 

6 

Hand  Spikes, 

2 

Worms  and  Staves, 

3 

Port-fire  Stocks, 

3 

Port-fire  Cases, 

3 

Priming  Wires, 

3 

Gunner's  Gimlets, 

3 

Prolouges, 

r 

Bricoles, 

3 

Vent  Punches, 

3 

Water  Buckets, 

3 

Tar  Buckets, 

3 

Sponge  Buckets, 

3 

Lint  Stocks. 

September  13,  1861. 

Colonel  Maxey  Gregg — South  Carolina. 

100  Virginia  Flint  Lock  Muskets  and  Bayonets. 

September  13,  1861. 

Col.  Trigg — 54^/i  Regiment    Va.   Volunteers ^   Christiansburg- , 
Montgomery  County. 

843  United  States  Flint  Lock  Muskets, 
843  Bayonets, 
2;000  Flints. 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  39 

September  14,  1861. 

Major  N.  Tyler — Wise  Legion,  care  of  (Quartermaster  Bayer. 

80  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
80  Bayonets. 

September  14,  1861. 

Captain  Alexander — Ordnance  Officer,  JSlaiiassas. 

1  Twenty-four  Pounder  Caisson, 
1  Spare  Pole, 
1  Spare  Wheel, 
1   Water  Bucket, 
1  Tar  Bucket. 

September  14,  1861. 

Captain  Thomas  J.  Kirkpatrick — Amherst  Artillery. 

.3  Slx-pounder  Caissons, 
3  Water  Buckets, 
3  Tar  Buckets. 

September  16,  1861. 

Major  N.  TvLER^TFise  Legion. 

60  Altered  Percussion  Muskets  and  Bayonets. 

September  16,  1861. 

Col.  ZuLUKousKi — \3th  Louisiana  Volunteers,  Griffin^s  Sjjring. 

600  Hall's  Rifies,  with  Bayonets, 
2,000  Flints. 
240  of  these  were  subsequently  returned. 

September  16,  1861. 

W.  W,  C.  George — Lancaster  Court  Housci 

500  Musket  Flints. 


September  16,  1661. 

Colonel  ZuLLSKOusKi — 13^/t  Louisiana  Volunteers. 

200  Hall's  Rifles  with  Bayonets. 


40  [Doc.  No.  36.] 

September  16,  1S61. 

Captain  J.  Brockenbrougii — Baltimore  Light  Artillery,  Camp 
Magruder,  near  Richmoiid. 

3  Iron  Six -pounder  Guns;  mounted, 
6  Hand  Spikes, 
6  Sponges  and  RammerS; 
3  Lint  Stocks, 
3  l*ort-fire  Stocks, 
3  Port- fire  Cases, 
12  Bricoles, 
6  Thumb  Stalls, 
3  Gunner's  Gimlets, 
3  Priming  Wires, 
3  Water  Buckets, 

2  Worms  and  Staves, 

3  Prolouges, 

3  Sponge  Buckets, 

3  Tar  Buckets. 

(Two  of  these  Six- pounders  were  subse- 
quendy  returned  with  some  of  the  imple- 
ments.) 

September  16,  1861. 

Virginia  Military  Institute. 

2  Prolouges, 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
,-                4  Hand  Spikes, 

2  Water  Buckets. 

September  17,  1861. 

Major  Sharp — Quarter- Master'' s  Department,  Richmond. 

1  Rifle  Four-pounder  Iron  Gun,  not  mounted, 

September  18,  1861. 

Quartermaster  William  S.  Ash — Wilmington^  N.  C. 

44  Flint- lock  Muskets, 
44  Bayonets. 

September  18,1801. 

Colonel  Mallurv — Port  LoiLry,  via  Fredericksburg. 

2  Twelve-poundet  Iron  Guns,  mounted, 
4  Hand  Spikes, 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  41 

Colonel  Mallory — Continued. 

2  Worms  and  Staves, 
2  Prolonges, 
8  Bricnlos, 
2  Lint  Stocks, 
2  Port  fire  Stocks, 
4  Haversacks, 
2  Tube  Pouches, 
2  Port-fire  Cases, 
4  Thumb  Stalls, 
2  Gunner's  Gimlets, 
2  Priming  Wires, 
2  Vent  Punches, 
2  Water  Buckets, 
2  Sponge  Buckets, 
2  Tar  Buckets. 

September  18,  1861. 

Capt.  Lewis — Lancaster  Cavalry,  Union  Wharf ,  Richnond  Co, 

1  Twelve-pounder  Iron  Gun,  mounted, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
2  Hand  Spikes, 

1  Worm  and  Stave, 

1  Water  Bucket, 

1  Tar  Bucket, 

1  Sponge  Bucket, 

4  Bricoles, 

1  Prolouge, 

1  Ijint  Stock, 

1  Portfire  Stock, 

2  Haversacks, 

1  Tube  Pouch, 

2  Gunner's  Gimlets, 
2  Priming  Wires, 

2  Thumb  Stalls, 
2  Vent  Punches, 
1  Port-fire  Case. 

September  18,  1861. 

Colonel  ZuLUSKousKi — 13^/t  Louisiana  Volunteers. 

115  Virginia  Flint-lock  Muskets, 

115  Bayonets, 

60  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 

60  Bayonets. 
49 


42  [Doc.  No.  36.] 

September  IS,  ISO  1. 

General  J.  B.  Clarke — Memphis,  Tennessee. 

500  Virginia  Flint-lock  Muskets, 
600  Bayonets. 

September  IS,  1S61. 

Capt.  Jones — Company  E,  1st  Battalion  Provisional  Army,  Va. 

60  Virginia  Flint-lock  Muskets, 
00  Bayonets. 

September  IS,  1S61. 

General  J.  B.  Clarke — Memphis,  Tennessee. 

2  Rifle  Four-pounder  Guns,  not  mounted, 
2  I^end Ilium  Hausse, 
2  Brackets, 

2  Six-pounder  Carriages, 
2  Worms  and  Staves, 
4  Hand  Spikes, 
2  Lint  Stocks, 
2  Port-fire  Stocks, 
2,500  Flints, 

2  Four-horse  Sets  Artillery  Harness. 

September  19,  ISO  I. 

Lieut.  DjCKiNaoN — Kanawha  Rangers,  5th  Regimcfii  Virginia 

Cavalry. 

30  Pair  Cavalry  Holsters. 

September  19,  ISOl, 

Colonel  Green — North  Carolina,  Wise  Legion. 

300  Virginia  Flint-lock  Muskets, 
300  Bayonets. 

September  19,  ISOL 

Colonel  ZuLUKOUSKi — 13^/i  Louisiana  Volunteers. 

25  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
25  Bayonets. 

September  20,  ISOL 

Ordnance  Department,  Confederate  States  Army. 

1  Twelve-pounder  Howitzet  Tangent  Scale, 


[Doc.  No.  36]  43 

Ordnwice  Department,  Confederate  States  Army — Continued. 

1  Six- pounder  Howitzer  Tangent  Scale, 
1  Cavalry  Sabre. 

September  20,  1861. 
Quartermaster  Wm.  S.  Ash — Wilmingtoii,  North  Carolina. 

20  Flint-lock  Muskets, 

20  Bayonets, 

15  Flint-lock  Muskets  without  Bayonets. 

September  23,  1861. 

Col.  William  D.  Stuart — 56//i  Regiment  Virgitiia  Volufiteers, 

Camp  Lee. 

200  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
200  Bayonets. 

September  24,  1861. 

140  Altered  Percussion  Muskets  with  Bayonets. 

September  24,  1861. 

Captain  Lewis  M.  Coleman — Morris  Artillery,  Hanover,  Camp 
Dimmock,  Richmond. 

6  Virginia  Flint-lock  Muskets, 
6  Bayonets. 

September  24,  1861. 

Captain  Walter  D.  Leake — Camp  Magruder. 

1  Six-pounder  Iron  Gun,  mounted, 

2  Hand  Spikes, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

1  Lint  Slock, 

1  Proloiige, 

1   Port-fire  Stock, 

1  Tar  Bucket, 

1  Water  Bucket, 

1  Sponge  Bucket, 

8  Haversacks, 

4  Tube  Pouches, 

1   Port  fire  Case, 

4  Tow  Hooks, 

1  Vent  Punch, 

2  Thumb  Stalls, 


44  [Doc.  No.  36.] 

Captain  Walter  D.  Leake — Continued. 

1  Priming  Wire, 
1  Gunner's  Gimlet. 

September  25,  1861. 

Captain  Thomas  J.   Kikkpatrick — Ajnherst  Artillery,   Camp 

Magrudcr. 

1  Six-ponnder  Iron  Gun,  mounted, 

2  Hand  Spikes, 
2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 


1 

Lint  Stock, 

1 

Prolouge, 

1 

Port-fire  Stock, 

1 

Tar  Bucket, 

1 

Sponge  Bucket, 

1 

Water  Bucket, 

8 

Haversacks, 

4 

Tube  Pouches, 

1 

Port-fire  Case, 

4 

Tow  Hooks, 

1 

Vent  Punch, 

2 

Thumb  Stalls, 

I 

Priming  Wire, 

1 

Gunner's  Gimlet, 

4  Bricolcs. 

September  26,  1861. 

Captain  Lat 

iiAM— Nelson  Artillery,  Camp  Mc 

1 

Six-pounder  Iron  Gun,  mounted, 

2  Hand  Spikes, 

2 

Sponges  and  Rammers, 

Prolouge, 

Lint  Stock, 

Port-fire  Stock, 

Water  Bucket, 

Tar  Bucket, 

Sponge  Bucket, 

9 

Bricoles, 

4 

Tow  Hooks, 

4 

Tube  Pouches, 

8 

Haversacks, 

1 

V^ent  Punch, 

2 

Thumb  Stalls, 

1 

Gunner's  Gimlet, 

I  Pf lining  Wire, 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  45 

September  26,  1861. 

Capt.  Brockenbrougii — Baltimore  Light  Artillery,  Camp  Ma- 
grudcr,  near  Richmond. 

1  Six-pounder  Iron  Gun,  mounted, 

2  Hand  Spikes, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
1  Lint  Stock, 
1  Port- fire  Slock, 

1  Prnlouge, 
4  Bricoles, 

8  Haversacks, 
4  Tube  Pouches, 

2  Thumb  Stalls, 

1  Gunner's  Gimlet, 
4  Vent  Punclies, 
1  Water  Bucket, 
1   Sponge  Bucket, 
1  Tar  Bucket, 
1  Priming  Wire, 
4  Tow  Hooks. 

September  2T,  1861. 

Captain  Thomas  J.  Kirkpatrick — Amherst  Artillery. 

1  Six-pounder  Caisson, 
I   Water  Bucket, 
1  Tar  Bucket, 
1  Spare  Pole. 

September  27,  1861. 

Captain  E.  L.  Coleman — Company  D,  \th  Louisiana  BattalioHj 
Camp  near  Reservoir,  Richmond. 

67  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
67  Bayonets. 

September  27,  1861.  . 

Captain  Duncan  Bruce — Company  C,  Ath  Louisiafia  Battalion. 

91  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
91  Bayonets. 

September  28,  1861. 

Capt.  Lewis — Jjancastcr  Cavalry,  V?iion  Wharf,  Richmond  Co. 

1  Twelve-pounder  Iron  Gun,  mounted, 

2  Hand  SpikeS; 


46  [Doc.  No.  36.] 

Captain  Lewis — Continued. 

1  Worm  and  Staff, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

1  Prolouge, 
4  Bricoles, 

2  Haversacks, 

1  Port- fire  Case, 
1  Tube  Pouch, 
1  Gunner's  Gimlet, 

1  Vent  Punch, 

2  Tow  Hooks, 
1  Lint  Slock, 

1  Porl-fire  Stock, 
1  Priming  Wire, 
1  Water  Bucket, 
1  Sponge  Bucket, 

1  Tar  Bucket, 

2  Thumb  Stalls. 

September  28,  186L 

Quartermaster  William  S.  Ash — Wilmington,  N.  C. 

20  Flint-lock  Muskets, 
20  Bayonets. 

September  30,  186L 

Major  Waddill — Richnond. 

61  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
61  Bayonets. 

September  30,  1861. 

Colonel  Armistead — 57th  Regiment  Virginia  Volunteers,  Camp 
Lee,  Richmond. 

300  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
300  Bayonets^ 

October  2,  1861. 

Colonel  William  D.  Stuart — 5^th  Regiment,  Camp  Lee. 

65  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
65  Bayonets. 

October  4,  1861. 

Colonel  Armistead — 57th  Regiment  Virginia  Volunteers, 

140  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
5-40  Bayonets. 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  47 

October  4,  1861. 

Captain  Baldwin — Confederate  States  Ordnance  Department, 
for  Colonel  Hood,  Atli  Regiment  Texas  Volunteers. 

120  Virginia  Flint-lock  Muskets, 
120  Bayonets. 

October  5,  1861. 

Colonel  Armistead — 57th  Regiment  Virginia  Volunteers. 

100  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
100  Bayonets. 

October  5, 1861. 

Lieutenant-Colonel  Claybrook — AQth  Regi?7ient,  Virginia, 

50  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
50  Bayonets. 

October?,  1861. 

Col.  John  G.  Bohanan — Matthews  Court  House,  via  Gloucestef 

Point. 

150  Virginia  Flint-lock  Muskets, 
150  Bayonets, 
150  Extra  Flints. 

Octobers,  1861. 

Colonel  Armistead — olth  Regiment  Virginia  Volunteers. 

82  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
82  Bayonets.. 

October  9,  1861. 

Captain  Jeffries — Nottoway  Artillery,  Camp  Magrudcr,  ?i€ar 

Richmond. 

2  Six-pounder  Iron  Guns,  mounted, 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

2  Worms  and  Staves, 

4  Hand  Spikes, 

2  Port- fire  Stocks, 

2  Port-fire  Cases, 

2  Tube  Pouches, 

2  1,1  nt  Stocks, 

2  Tar  Bu-kets, 

2   Water  Buckets, 

2  Sponge  Buckets, 

8  Bricoles, 


48  [Doc.  No.  36.] 

Captain  Jeffries — Continued. 
4  Haversacks, 
2  Tow  Hooks, 
2  Vent  Punches, 
2  Prolouges. 

October  9,  1861. 

William  Gihboxy — Wythvillc ,  for  Colonel  J.  S.  M^lliams,  of 

Kentucky. 

100  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 

100  Bnynnets, 

120  Springfield  Percussion  Muskets, 

120  Bayonets, 

340  Brass  Mounted  Flint-lock  Muskets, 

340  Bayonets, 

40  Virginia  Flint-lock  Muskets, 

40  Bayonets, 

1,500  Extra  Flints. 

October  12,  1861. 

Lieut.  Col.  Claybrook — 40^/i  Regiment   Virginia   Volunteers, 

50  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
50  Bayonets. 

October  12,  1861. 

Colonel  Warner  T.  Jones — 21^^  Regiment,  Gloucester  Poifit- 

150  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
150  Bayonets. 

October  14, 1861, 

Col.  G.  W.  Randolph — Howitzer  Battalion,  Yorktown. 

1  Ten  Inch  Mortar  and  Bed, 
1  Fight  Inch  Mortar  and  Bed, 

1  Box  Equipments  for  same, 
6  Hand  Spikes, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers. 

October  14,  1861. 

Captain  Baldwin — Confederate  States  Ordnance  Department, 
for  Colonel  Pendleton,  Manassas. 

1  Twelve  Pounder  Iron  Gun,  mounted, 

2  Hand  Spikes. 


"[Doc.  No.  36.]  49 

October  15,  1861. 

Captain  Brockenbrough — Baltimore  Artilleiy. 

2  Six-pounder  Caissons, 
2  Spare  Poles, 
2  Spare  Wheels, 
2  Water  Buckets, 
2  Tar  Buckets. 

October  L5,  1861. 
Quartermaster  Wm.  S.  Ash — Wilmingtoji,  North  Carolina, 

60  Flint-lock  Muskets, 
60  Bayonets. 

October  15,  1861. 

Colonel  G.  W.  Randolph — Howitzer  Battalion,  Yorktown. 

30  Ten-inch  Mortar  Shell. 

October  16,  1861. 

Colonel  G.  W.  Randolph. 

14  Ten-inch  Mortar  Shell, 
17  Eight-inch  Mortar  Shell. 

October  16,  1861. 

Captain  J.  Kirkpatrick — Amherst  Artillery^  Camp  Magrudef, 

1  Caisson  for  Ritie  Gun, 
1  Spare  Wheel, 
1  Spare  Pole, 
1  Water  Bucket, 
1  Tar  Bucket. 

October  16,  1S61. 

Captain  Jeffries — Nottoway  Artillery. 

1  Iron  Rifie  Four-pounder  Gun,  mounted, 

2  Hand  Spikes, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
1    Worm  and  StafT, 
1   Port- fire  Stock, 

1  I<intStock, 

2  Haversacks, 

1   l*ortfire  Case, 
1   Tube  I'ouch, 
1   Proloiige, 
4  Bricoles, 
50 


50  [Doc.  Ko.  36.^ 

Captain  Jekfries — Continued. 
1  Tar  Bucket, 
1  ^Vater  Buclcet, 
1    Spnngn  Bucket, 
1    Priming  Wire, 

1  Gunner's  Gimlet, 

2  Thumb  Stalls, 

1  Vent  Punch, 

2  Tow  Hooks. 

October  17,  ISOl. 

Captain  Bruce — Of  Virginia  Senate,  Artillery,  Camp  Fauntle- 
10 y,  Richmond . 

1  Iron  Six-pounder  Gnu,  mounted, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
2  Hand  Spikes, 

I  Prolonge. 

October  IT,  1861. 

Captain  Walter  D.  Leake — Turner  Artillery,  Goochland. 

1  Iron  Pour-pounder  Ride  Gun,  mounted. 

October  17,  1861. 

Captain  Thomas  J.  Kirkpatrick — Amherst  Artillery. 
1  Iron  Rifle  Four- pounder  Gun,  mounted. 

October  18,  1861. 

Lieutenant- Colonel  Claybrook — iOth  Virginia  Regiment, 
Aquia  Creek. 

50  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
50  Bayonets. 

October  18,  1861. 

Captain  W.  Latham — kelson  Artillery. 

1  Iron  Six-pounder  Gun,  mounted. 

October  18,  1861. 

Captain  Macon — Fayette  Artillery,  Gloucester  Point. 

J    Iroii  Fonr-ponnder  Rifle  Gun,  mounted, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
2  Hand  Spikes, 

1  Worm  and  Stafl!", 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  Sf' 

Captain  Macon — Continued. 
1  Lint  Stock, 

1  Port-fire  Stock, 

2  Haversacks, 
1  Tube  Pouch, 

1  Port-fire  Case, 

2  Thumb  S\i\\h, 

1  Gunner's  Gimlet, 

1  Priming  Wire, 

1  Tow  Hook, 

1  Vent  Punch, 

4  Bricoles, 

1  Prolouge, 

1  Tar  Bucket, 

1  Water  Bucket, 

1  Sponge  Backet. 

October  18,1861. 

Col.  Harness — lAth  Regiment   Virginia  Militia,  Straushurgy 
Shenandoah  County. 

25  Pounds  Rifle  Powder, 
25  Pounds  Musket  Powder. 

October  19,  1861. 

Major  Crutchfield,  of  Col.  GootTs  Regiment,  Staimton,  Va. 

500  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
500  Bayonets. 


October  19, 

1861. 

Capt. 

xMiLLER,  of  Col.  John  B.  Baldwin'' s 

Reg 

ifnent,  Staunton 

2  Iron  Six-pounder  Guns, 

mou 

nted. 

4  Hand  Spikes, 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

1  Worm  and  StatT, 

2  Prolouges, 

8  Bricoles, 

4  Haversacks, 

2  Port- fire  Cases, 

2  Tube  Pouches, 

2  Lint  Stocks, 

2  Port-firo  Storks, 

4  Thumb  Stalls, 

2  Gunner's  Gimlets, 

2  Priming,  Wires, 

52  [Doc.  No.  36.] 

Captain  Miller — Continued. 

2  Water  Buckets, 

2  Sponge  I?uckets, 

2  Tar  Buckets, 

2  Vent  Punches, 

2  Tow  Hooks, 

2  Iron  Pour-pounder  Guns,  mounted, 

4  Hand  Spikes, 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

2  Worms  jnd  Staves, 

2  Proloiiges, 

8  Bricoles, 

4  Haversacks, 

2  Port-fire  Cases, 

2  Tube  Pouches, 

2  Lint  Stocks, 

2  Portfire  Stocks, 

4  Thumb  Stalls, 

2  Gunner's  Gimlets, 

2  Priming  Wires, 

2  Water  Buckets, 

2  Sponge  Buckets, 

2  Tar  Buckets, 

2  A'ent  Punches, 

2  Tow  Hooks, 

2  Pendulum  Hausses, 

2  Brackets. 

October  20,  18G1. 

Major  ToMLiN — Comniayiding  at  West  Point. 

75  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
75  Bayonets. 

October  21,  1861. 

Hon.  M.  R.  H.  Garnett — Fort  Loiory,  Tappahannock. 

1  Four-pounder  Iron  Rifle  Gun,  mounted, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
2  Hand  Spikes, 

1  Worm  and  StaflJ", 
1  Port-fire  Stock, 
1   Lint  Stock, 
1  Water  Bucket, 
1  Sponge  Bucket, 
1  Tariiucket, 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  65 

Hon.  M.  R.  H.  Garnett — Continued. 

1  Prolouge, 
4  Bricoles, 

2  Haversacks, 

1  Tube  Pouch, 

1  Port-fire  Case, 

2  Thumb  Stalls, 
1  Tow  Hook, 

1  Peudnhuii  Hausse  and  Bracket, 
1  Vent  Punch, 
1  Priming  Wire, 
1  Gunner's  Gimlet. 

October  21,  1861. 

Captain  Bruce,  of  Virginia  Senate — Camp  Fauntleroy. 

1  Six-pounder  Iron  Gun,  mounted, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
2  Hand  Spikes, 

1  Prolonge. 

October  22,  1861. 

Capt.  J.  T.  WooDHOusE — \^th  Regiment  Virginia  Volunteers^ 

near  Norfolk. 

68  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
68  Bayonets. 

October  22,  1861. 

Hon.  M.  R.  H.  Garnett — Fort  Lowry. 

1  Four-pounder  Iron  Rifle  Gun,  mounted, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
2  Hand  Spikes, 

1    Worm  and  Staff, 
1  Lint  Stock, 
1  Port-fire  Stock, 

1  Prolonge, 
4  Bricoles, 

2  Haversacks, 
1  Tube  Pouch, 

1  Port- fire  Case, 

2  Thumb  Stalls, 

1  Pendulum  Hausse  and  Bracket, 
I   Watrr  Bucket, 
1  Tar  Bucket, 


54  [Doc.  Xo.  36.] 

Hon.  M.  R.  n.  Garxett — Continued. 
1  Sponge  Bucket, 
1  Vent  Piiiicli, 
1  Gunner's  Gimlet, 
1  Priming  Wire, 

1  Tow  Hook. 

October  22,1861. 

Confederate  States  Laboratory. 

2,000  Pounds  Mnsket  Powder, 
1,250  Pounds  Rifle  Powder. 

October  22, 1861. 

Colonel  RoGRR  A.  Pryor — 3rf  Re^iinent  Virs^inia  Volunteers, 
Camp  Cook,  Smitlifield,  Isle  of   Wight. 

40  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
40  Bayonets. 

October  23,  1861. 

Lieut.  Col,  Claybrook — 40^/i  Virginia  Regimejit ,  Aquia  O'cek. 

51  Altered  Percussion  JVIuskets, 
51  Bayonets. 

October  23,  1861. 

General  James  H.  Carson — Winchester. 

2  Iron  Four-pounder  Rifle  Guns,  mounted, 
4  Hand  Spikes, 

4  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

2  Lint  Stocks, 

2  Port- fire  Stocks, 

2  Worms  and  Staves, 

2  Water  Buckets, 

2  Sponge  Buckets, 

2  'Par  Buckets, 

2  Prolouges, 

8  Bricoles, 

4  Haversacks, 

2  Tube  Pouches, 

2  Port-fire  Cases, 

2  Gunner's  Gimlets, 

2  Priming  Wires, 

2  Vent  Punchesj 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  M 

General  James  H.  Carson — Continued. 
2  Pendulum  Hausses, 
2  Brackets, 

2  Tow  Hooks, 
4  Thumb  Stalls. 

October  24,  1S61. 

Colonel  Roger  A.  Pryor — 3d  Regiment   Virginia  Volunteers. 

100  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
100  Bayonets. 

October  24,  1861. 

Colonel  Angus  W.  McDonald — Romney)  Virginia. 

3  Iron  Rifle  Four-pounder  Guns,  mounted, 
6  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

G  Hand  Spikes, 
3  Worms  and  Staves, 
3  Prolouges, 
3  Lint  Stocks, 
3  Port-fire  Stocks, 
12  Bricoles, 
3  Tube  Pouches, 
3  Port- fire  Cases, 
3  Vent  Punches, 
3  Gunner's  Gimlets, 
3  Priming  Wires, 
3  Water  Buckets, 
3  Tar  Buckets, 
3  Sponge  Buckets, 
6  Thumb  Stalls, 
3  Tow  Hooks, 

1  Pendulum  Hausse  and  Bracket, 
6  Haversacks. 

October  24,  1861. 

Col.  Trigg — 5\lli  Virginia  Regiment,  Christiansburg ,  Montgo- 
mery County. 

25  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
25  Bayonets. 

October  24,  1861. 

Captain  W.  Latham — Nelson  Artillery. 

3  Six-ponndor  Caissons, 
3  Water  Buckets, 
3  Tar  Buckets. 


56  [Doc.  No.  36.] 

October  25,  1S61. 

Major  S.  Crutchfield — Colonel  Good^s  Regiment,  Staujiton. 

252  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
252  Bayonets. 

October  25;  1S61. 

Confederate  States  Laboratory. 

3,200  Pounds  Musket  Powder, 
300  Pounds  Rilk  Powder. 

October  25,  1861. 

Captain  Walter  D.  Leake — Turner  Artillcnj,  Goochland  Co. 

1  Six-pounder  Caisson, 

1  Spare  Pole, 

1  Spare  Wheel, 

1  Axe, 

1  Mattock, 

1  Water  Bucket, 

1  Tar  Bucket. 

October  26,  18G1. 

Colonel  Roger  A.  Pryor — 3d  Regiment  Virginia   Volufiteers. 

100  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
100  Bayonets. 
October  28. 

110  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
110  Bayonets. 

October  26,  1861. 

Confederate  States  Laboratory. 

4,600  Pounds  Musket  Powder. 

October  28, 1861. 

Captain  Moorman — Norfolk. 

1  4-pounder  Iron  Rifle  Gun,  mounted, 

2  Hand  Spikes, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
1  AVorni  and  Stafl*, 
1  PmlougCj 
1  Lint  Stock, 
1  Port-fire  Stock, 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  Bt 

Captain  Moornan — Continued. 
2  Haversacks, 

1  Tube  Pouch, 

2  Thumb  Stalls, 
1  Port-fire  Case, 
4  Bricoles, 

1  Gunner's  Gimlet, 

1  Priming  Wire, 

I  Vent  Punch, 

1   Water  Bucket, 

1  Sponge  Bucket, 

1  Tar  Bucket, 

1  Tow  Hook, 

1  Caisson  for  Rifle  Gun, 

1  Spare  Pole, 

1  Spare  Wheel, 

1  Water  Bucket, 

1  Tar  Bucket. 

October  28,1861. 

Captain  Bowie — Carter^s  Wharf,  Westmoreland. 

1  4-pounder  Iron  Rifle  Gun,  mounted, 

2  Hand  Spikes,  * 
2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

1  Worm  and  Staff", 

1  Prolouge, 

1  Lint  Stock, 

1  l*ort-fire  Stock, 

2  Haversacks, 

1  Tube  Pouch, 

2  Thumb  Stalls, 
1  Port-fire  Case, 
4  Bricoles, 

1  Gunner's  Gimlet, 
1  Priming  Wire, 
1  Vent  Punch, 
1  Water  Bucket, 
1  Sponge  Bucket, 
1  Tar  Bucket, 
1  Tow  Hook. 


October  29. 


51 


1  Iron  Four-pounder  Rifle  Gun,  mounted, 

2  Sponges  and  Rammers, 
2  Hand  Spikos, 

]    Worm  and  Staff", 
1  Port-fire  Stock, 


[Doc.  No.  36.] 


Captain  Bowie — 

Continued. 

I 

Lint  Sioclc, 

1 

Prolnugo, 

2 

Haversacks, 

2  Thumb  Stalls, 

1 

Port -fire  Case, 

1 

Tube  Pouch, 

4  Bricoles, 

1 

Water  Bucket, 

1 

Sponge  Bucket, 

1 

Tar  Bucket, 

1 

Priming  Wire, 

1 

Gunner's  Gimlet, 

1 

Vent  Punch, 

1 

Tow  Hook. 

October  30,  1861. 

Captain  Walter  D.  Leake — Turner  Artillery. 

1  Six-pounder  Caisson, 

1  Spare  Pole, 

1  Spare  Wheel, 

•  1  Water  Bucket, 

1  Tar  Bucket. 

October  30,  1861. 

Major  Skinner — Ist  Regiment  Virginia  VolunteerSy  Manassas. 

John  Brown's  Rifle. 

October  30,  1861. 

Major  GoRGAs — Confederate  States  Ordnance  Department. 

4  Four-pounder  Iron  Rifle  Guns,  not  mounted. 

October  31,  1861. 

Confederate  States  Laboratory. 

41  Barrels  Cannon  Powder,  (100  lbs.  to  bbl.) 

October  31,  1861. 

James  Lynch — Petersburg,  to  Test  Gun  for  State. 

20  Pounds  Powder. 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  59 

October  31,  1861. 

Colonel  Stuart — 5(5ih  Rcgi?ne?it,  Virginia. 

23  Altered  Percussion  Muskets  and  Bayonets. 

October  31,  18G1. 

Captain  Walter  D.  Leake — Turner  Artillery, 

1  Six-pounder  Caisson, 

1  Spare  Wheel, 

1  Water  Bucket, 

1  Tar  Bucket. 

October  31, 1861. 

Colonel  A.  C.  Moore — Abingdon  Virginia  Volunteers. 

400  Altered  Percussion  Muskets, 
400  Bayonets. 

October  31,  1861. 

Major  G.  W.  Randolph — Yorktown 

4  24-pounder  Iron  Guns,  not  mounted, 

3  4- pounder  Iron  Rifle  Guns,  mounted, 

6  Sponges  and  Rammers, 

6  Hand  Spikes, 

3  Frolouges, 

3  Lint  Stocks, 

3  Port- fire  Stocks, 

3  Worms  and  Staves,. 

3  Water  Buckets, 

3  Tar  Buckets 

3  Sponge  liuckets, 

6  Haversacks, 

3  Tube  Pouches, 

3  Port-fire  Cases, 

6  Thumb  Stalls, 

12  Bricoles, 

3  Vent  Punches, 

3  Priming  Wires, 

3  Gunner's  Gimlets, 

3  Pendulum  Hausses, 

3  Brark'pts, 

3  Tow  Hooks. 


[Doc.  No.  36.]  61 


(APPENDIX  H.) 


Of  the  articles  enumerated  in  statement  A,  there  were  issued 
from  the  14th  June,  1861  to  1st  November,  1861,  the  following: 

9,905  Flint  Muskets, 
4,514  Percussion  Muskets, 
14,68:^  Bayonets, 
620  Hall's  Rifles, 
74  Flint  Lock  Rifles, 
56  Percussion  Rifles, 
7  Mnsketoons,  » 

871  Cavalry  Sabres, 
876  Cavalry  Sabre  Belts, 
32  Artillery  Sabres, 
22  Artillery  Sabre  Belts, 

3  Travelling  Forges  with  implements, 

1  Travelling  Forge  without  implements, 

2  Battery  Wagons  with  implements, 

1  Battery  Wagons  without  implements, 
1  Eight  Inch  Mortar  with  Bed  and  equipments, 
1  Ten  Inch  Mortar  with  Bed  and  equipments, 
61  Mortar  Shells, 

77  Sets  of  Artillery  Harness,  (4  horses  to  a  set,) 
52  Sets  Wagon  Harness,  (4  horses  to  a  set,) 
97,450  Pounds  of  Powder, 

48  Iron  Six-pounder  CanVion,  mounted, 
18  Iron  Six-pounder  Cannon,  not  mounted, 
6  Iron  Twelve-pounder  Cannon,  not  mounted, 
12  Iron  Twelve-pounder  Cannon,  mounted, 
20  Iron  Four-pounder  Rifle  Cannon,  mounted, 
9  Iron  Four-pounder  Rifle  Cannon,  not  mounted, 
1  Iron  Six-pounder  Parrott  Rifle,  mounted, 

4  Iron  24-pounder  Cannon,  not  mounted, 

1   Iron  Twelve-pounder  Howitzer,  mounted, 
15  Iron  Twenty-four  pounder  Howitzers,  mounted, 

3  Brass  Twelve-pounder  Howitzers,  mounted, 

5  Brass  Six  pounder  Cannon,  mounted, 

1  Brass  Twelve-pounder  Rifle  Cannon,  mounted, 

4  Brass   Twelve-pounder  Smoothbore   Cannon, 

mounted, 
4  Six- pounder  Guu  Carriages,  without  Guns, 
B2  Caissons. 


62  [Doc.  No.  36.] 

A  proportionate  amount  of  various  other  articles  enumerated 
in  statement  A,  were  issued  in  the  same  period. 

In  addition  to  issnes  as  per  statement  A,  and  the  issues  from 
the  Virginia  Military  Institute,  as  per  statement  B,  this  depart- 
ment turned  over  to  the  Confederate  authorities  on  the  14th 
June,  1861,  a  Laboratory  with  machines,  fixtures,  and  hands  ca- 
pable of  at  once  turning  out  75,000  rounds  of  cartridges  daily. 


[DOC.  NO.  xxxvn.] 


REPORT 


OF  THE 


AUDITOR  OF  PUBLIC  ACCOUNTS, 


EXUIBITING  THE 


WHITE,  FREE  AND  SLAVE  rOl'ULATION, 


AND  THE  VALUE  Of 


mi  ESTATE  AND  PERSONAL  PBOPEETr. 


ARRANOED  B7  DISTRICTS. 


[Doc.  No.  37.] 


REPORT. 


Auditor's  Office, 
Richmojid,  Nov.  21,  1861, 
To  R.  L.  MONTAGUE,  E.q., 

PrtHdent  of  the.  Conrentinn. 

Sir, — In  pursuance  of  a  resolution  of  the  Convention,  over 
which  you  preside,  adopted  on  this  day,  requesting  ''the  Audi- 
tor of  Pubhc  Acconnt.s  to  furnish  to  the  Convention  a  table 
showing  the  white  population  of  each  county  in  the  State  ;  the 
number  of  white  male  inhabitants  above  the  age  of  twenty-one 
years  ;  the  negro  population  of  each  county  ;  and  a  statement 
showing  the  value  of  property  in  each  county,  real  and  per- 
sonal." I  have  the  honor  of  submitting  herewith  the  table 
desired,  with  a  request  that  you  will  lay  the  same  before  the 
Convention. 

The  information  had  been  obtained  and  forms  part  of  my 
report  for  the  next  General  Assembly,  and  as  will  be  observed,  is 
arranged  by  geographical  districts.  I  have  not  deemed  the 
arrangement  of  sulTicient  importance  to  change  the  same,  and 
•trust  that  the  table,  as  arranged,  will  be  acceptable. 

I  am,  very  respectfully, 

Your  most  ob't  serv't, 

.1.  M.  BENNETT, 
Auditor  of  Public  Accounts, 


[Doo.  No.  37.] 


TABLE    A. 

Exhibiting  the  white  male  persons  over  21  years  of  age,  and  the  free  negro  and  slave 
population  of  each  county  and  city  in  the  state;  and  the  total  ti  hite  and  free  negro 
and  slave  population;  also,  the  value  of  real  estate  and  personal  property  oivned  by 
residents  of  each  county;  aiTanged  by  districts. 

EASTERN  VIRGINIA— Tide  Water  Dutrict. 


COUNTIES. 


Alexandria 

Accoraac 

Charles  City 

Caroline 

Chesterfield  

Kssex 

Elizabeth  City 

Fairfax 

Greenesville 

fJIoucester 

Hanover 

Henrico 

Ule  of  Wight 

James  City 

KioR  (leorge 

King  William 

King  t  Queen 

Lancaster 

Matthews 

Middlesex 

Nansemond, 

New  Kent 

Norfolk  county. . . . 
Northumberland... 

Northampton 

Princess  Anne 

Prince  George 

Prince  William. ... 
Richmond  county. 

ftafTord 

Southampton 

PpotsTlrania 

furry 

Sussex 

Warwick 

Westmoreland 

York 

Total 


CrnE9  AND  TOWNS. 

Fredericksburg 

Norfolk  city 

Port«moulh 

Richmond 

WiUiamsborg 

TotAl 

Aggregatfi 


B^ 


9,S.5Si 
lO.fiST 
1,806! 
6,9501 
10,0181 
8,'29.')i 
8,1  SO 
8,0471 
1,973 
VilSl 
7,508, 
1.8,697 
5,0.^8 
1,412 
2,515, 
2,589. 
a.-'Ol 
1,984' 
8,805 
1,^66 
.\742 
2,146 
5,887 
8,871 
2,994 
4,8.85 
2,918 
5,689 
3.570 
4.922 
5,7.'>7' 
4,.096 
2,864 
8,118 
602 
8.886 
2,8.^8 


85,798,168,282 


«79 
1,704 
1,627 
4,103 

150 


1,408 

3,892 
856 
843 
644 
478.' 
2011 
671 1 
2:i4. 
702 
2.83 

1,604| 

1,3.V1 
920 
885 
415 
388! 
80 
218 
123 

2,470 
864 

1,227 
220  j 
966! 
193; 
496 
520l 
820 
819 

1,7.50 
1.17 

1,2.^ 
673: 
69 

1,192' 
671' 


1,886 
4,.M)7 
2,947 
10,672 
8,8.58 
6,696 
2,417 
8,117 
4,167 
5,786 
9,484 
8,.842 
8,.570 
1,8.38 
8,675 
5..525 
6,142 
2,869: 
3,00S| 
2,3751 
5,481 1 
8,874 
3,5381 
8,439 
3.872! 
.8,186 
4,996 
2,8.561 
2,406i 
.3,314 
5.4^»9| 
6,495i 
2..515 
6,384 1 
l,019i 
8,704l 
1.925' 


12,6.521 

18,.586 

.5.6091 

18,4to' 

19.01.5 

10.469 

5,79^, 

11.8.3.5! 

6,374 

10,956 

17.22.5; 

23.643 

9,977 

4,176 

6,.575i 

8..529 

10.381 

5,1.54 

7,091 

4,364 

13,693' 

.5,ss4 

10,1.52 

7,.5:-!(l 

7.n:12 

7,714 

8,41  (t 

8..565 

6,856l 

K.W>I 

12,916 

11,04Ni 

6,1. 83| 

10,17.5; 

1,740' 

S,2>2: 

4.949 


6,066,425 
8,288,595 
1 ,8(1,5,827 
4,727,.562 
4,278,429 
3,6.51, 6ft3 
2,390,.530 
3,018,107 
1,324,494 
2,.5s5,441 
2,263,388 
S,.566,777' 
1,^2,29.5! 

b(l.5,3SS 
1,926,844| 
2,.547,S50 
2,465,794 
1,174,3.50 
1,784,390 
1,12.5,320 
2,.576,H90 
1.293,093 
2,94.5,414! 
2,271,8021 
2,792,995' 
1,9.56,1161 
2,108,425 
2.4s3,49s 
l,22s,16,5 
l,975,72fi 
1,HV2,69'/ 
l,»41..%30l 
1.223.142; 
1,736,6.54 

369,.3.'.0 
1.920.894 

71.5.420 


°  2 

0)   C0 


2,«48,413 
3,413,229 
2,216,0'^ 
9,196,405 
6,878,60S 
6,9.80,84.8 
3,2.57,595 
3,270,814 
4,206,4fM; 
4,740,6^9 
5,492,985 
8,0(11,472 
2,983,.587 
l,294,ni.? 
8,7.55,494 
8,671,0(X) 
.5,177,.324 
2,462,875 
3,066,810 
1.727,768 
4,999,.560 
2,1 73, '300 
8,.59.3,118 
8,198,127 
8,60.5,810 
2,654,874 
4.672.740 
2.'»25,296 
1.91H,7'<9 
4.(»03,987 
4,2.37,102 
4.926..5.3.3 
2.(»60,94.8 
6,727,102 
619,312 
2,6^6,1  (^ 
1.f»6(  1.900 


28.727  160,299  8.57,258  188,800,7691 1140,949,893 


3,815!  422 

10,157  1,028' 

8,799  567 

24,2871  1,987 

744!  120 


1,291 

4,.532 

983 


6.028 
15.717 
10.289 


11,699,   87,978 
748      1,612 


6,262    47,802    4,114    19,2a8     70,619 


44,060  215,534  32,641  179,602  427,877 


[Doc.  Ko.  37.] 


TABL"E    A -Continncd. 

JUxhiUilinf;  the  trhilt  male  persons  orer  21  years  of  a^e,  and  the  fiee  Hf_i^o  and  stavi 
pnpulalivn  of  each  coitnty  and  rily  in  llir  state;  and  the  total  uhite  and  free  negro  and 
slfirc  population;  also,  the  rnltie  of  real  estate  and  personal  propcrltj  mrned  by  resi- 
dejUx  oj  each  county;  arrani^ed  by  districts. 

EASTERN  VIRGINIA— Piedmont  District. 


COUNTIES. 


y. 


AUnrnarlc 

/iiiflia 

Anihcrs't 

A|i)'iiniHt1ox. . . 

)i,(lfiir.l 

Jtninswiok 

]luckiiit.'li:iiii  ... 

Cmiiiilicll 

riuirlolte 

<'uliK-prr 

Ouiiibirl:ind  . . . 

ViDwtdclle 

Vauquier 

Vranklln 

Fluvanna 

Jiri-enc 

(irinrliland 

JIalifax . 

Henry   

J.oudouii 

Louisa 

liUnenburg 

MadUou 

Mecklenburg... 

Nelson 

Nottoway 

Orange 

Patrick 

Pittsylvania  . . . 
Prince  Kdward. 

PowliHtaii 

Itappuliaiinock. 


Total. 


2,HnO 

«77; 

1,6M9| 

3,014i 
1,140 
l,871li 
l,!tti4 
1,054 
1,1!«; 
«!•!»' 
l.tW 
2,2W 
2,73" 
l.liW 

tm 

^(•.^ 
2,477 
1,45" 
8,irjO 
1,430 
1146 
!it»2 

i,r>m 
■i:>w> 

MO 

i,oot> 

1,:J44 
3,2NS 
1,007 
.'.77 
1,080 


0)  V 

IS 


o  o 

> 


12,206 
2,S!t4 
7,13tV 
4,113 

14,.syo 

4,!)<.t3 
6,(H1 
y,740 
4,iisl 
4,<.)(>4 
2,ii4r. 
4,<°>4i) 
10,46' 
13,042 
.'),10: 
.  3,01  i' 
3,sl4 

n,o<i(> 

0,7711 
l."),o;}o 
0,100 
4,447 
4,3(U 
0,777 
0.0.'iO 
2,270 
4,4071 
7,1.V.» 
l.'>,0v!7l 
4,0!j!>i 
2,.'>b<J| 

6,018; 


V.fi\ 
333! 

noi 

.')02 
670, 
800, 
082i 
2.'>2i 
42r.i 
810, 
2(H> 
792i 
105i 
2.'>7| 
22 
703| 

r).vs 

308 

1,243| 

.S.39 

282 1 

93, 
900; 
121, 

9^ 

is-s! 

130] 
4.')7 
406 
399 
312 


13,910 
7,007 
0,i>47 
4,000 

lt»,170 
9,148 
&,S11 
J^,^04 
9,230 
0,076 
6,706 
7,071 

10.4.\6 
0,361 
4.994 

0,139 

14,S97 
6,01s 
6.499 

10,193 
7,806 
4,897 

12,419 
0,2)t,S| 
0,40S 
0,111 
2,070, 

12.172 
7,341  i 
6,403 
8,620 


47,094|210,s79  12,328  23s,690 


CITIES  AM)  TOWNS. 


Danville . . . 
Lynchburg. 
Petersburg. 


ToUl 

Aggregates. 


804 

9«7 

2,286 


S,rM 


1,674'  202 
8,791'  3.V) 
9,4-84    8,1  M 


14,S99|   8,710 


1.763 
2,710 
6,0!i0 

10,1.69 


5t>,0.60  231,778  10,t>44  24S,849 


20,026 
10,736 
14,310 

8,8h9 
2,6,00S 
14,811 
1.6,212 
19,2s0 
14,409 
12,064 

9,901 
11,920 
21.704 
20,09S 
lO.Jk'vS 

6,026 
10,0,60 
20,,')21 
12,106 
21,772 
10,09S 
11,9s4 

8,n64 
20,(KI0 
13,016 

8,8.30 
10,700 

9,.3.69 
27,0.')0 
11,844 

S,391 

8,860 


fS,.672,77o; 
2,777,007 
8,7l8,96Sl 
2,017,834| 
7,W0.666 
2,587,607 
4,ia3,(ei 
4,S20,828 
4,7.66,209 
6,.%60,716 
2,727,^01 
8,187,8<''6 
6,996,727 
4.870,091 
2,.'>47,226 
1,1S6,.N38 
2,780,880 
7,' 54,009 
2,174,Os6l 

12,3 12,701 1 
4,802,236 
2,4.88.714 
2,999,957 
4,400,900 
8,929,080| 

2,173,.'.01 
4,291,216 
1,298,803 
7,998,184 
8,211,424 
8,257,823 
8,117,7881 


$S,&>4,S2S 
7,270,881 
6,7.8.6,870 
6,0<i(".,i'.'rt 

ll,89T,s<ii» 
9,250,790 
8,C67,J»8 

P,20«,PM 
C,3ii:',.]r,T 
7,:{n.-.,:l,Mi 
6,9011, .v.'.! 
7,ot"Hi,047 
0,682,200 
6,7.'>9,87» 
l,9lVl,94s 
ft,.S4'.Mli7 

14,337,U0.s 
8,685,273 
8,020,790 
9,486,805 
8,011,602 
4>582,565 

11,049,808 
6,8.62,666 
6,101,601 
6,800.006 
2,S40,M| 

14,087,0n 
7,108,081 
6,.W.,7.6.'5 
8,041,UM 


407,8974135,646,844!.  1228,073,184 


8,689 

0,857 

18,278 


2S,774 
496,071 


[Doc.  No.  37.] 


TABLE    A.— Continued. 

.Ex/iifti/f?!""  the  while  male  prrf:onft  crer  21  years  of  age,  and  the  free  nt^ro  and  slave 
pntmlalinn  of  each  cnnDtij  and  rily  in  the  state;  and  the  total  irhite  and  free  negro  and 
slave  population;  also,  the  value  of  real  estate  and  jietsonal  properly  owned  by  resi- 
dents of  eachjioiinty;  arranged  by  districts. 

VALLEY. 


COUNTIES. 


s  >; 


3 

4 

T) 

o 

fe 

a 

n 

ts 

in 

H 

Alleghany 

Augusta 

Ualh 

Berkeley 

Hotctourt 

Clarke 

Praig 

Frederick 

Hampsliire  . .. 

Hardy 

Hiehlanil 

Jefferson 

Morgan 

I'age 

Pendlefon  .... 

Roanoke 

KockbriJge.. . 
Rockingham.. 
Shenandoah .. 
Warren 


1,249 

fi(l3 
1,!»01 

1(,0' 

(52fil 

];ftTV 

2,«>W| 

i.fir,.-)' 

8251 
l,Oti!t 

773 
l,8tii; 

l.lfis 

1,1. ^<>. 

2,591, 

8,9.%4 

2,7v$, 

(?79 


,6f)>sl 
,652 
,wir, 
,444 
,707 

,ior. 

,077, 

,4M 
,521 1 
,s,;)(i, 
,092 
,fil.3' 
,S75, 
,S73 

,25,;| 

,*4.")| 
4951 
,829, 
,5s6, 


1.S2I 

4f.s 

2fi9l 
30:3 1 

64 

27 
5.31 1 
219 
27<i 

27 
623 

24 
8M 

4'> 
149 
421 
526 
814 
2>il 


990 
4,70'^ 

946 
1,6.^X1 
2,769 
3,875 

420 
],.545 
1,213. 
1,073 

402, 

1,960 

94; 

S.50| 

244' 
2,643 
8.9*4 
2,387 

7.53 
1,575 


6,765 

1,3,57.405 

2:3,844 

14,326,:399 

3,676 

1.7.32,922 

12,.525 

5,084,  lh3 

11,516 

4,841.347 

7,146 

3,837.276 

3,5.53 

l,058,.5Vj 

12,1.5:3 

6,840,43S 

13,913 

7,451,215 

9,sC4 

3.572.  M^ 

4,319 

1,.5S5,421 

14,575 

7,4.53,296 

3,731 

737,.591 

8,109 

2,-526,274 

6,1 (>5 

l,fi64..567 

8,048 

3.9S2.290 

17,2.50 

7,16,5,272 

23,408 

10,446,512 

13,S96 

5.492,286 

6,442 

2,2^6,0.35 

1,5.5(»,77!» 
10,(»07,89S 
],119,74<> 
2.:38(i,448 
5,o;3l.!»l» 
3,270,8i»4 

7.54,^27 
5.003,961 
2,.V.t4,74»i 
2,040.891 

99O,40S 
4,M5.Ks2 

8.51,186 
1,. 52.5,881 

945,062 
3.2.56,182 
6,01.5,251 
6,6.59.419 
2.7.56,68,5 
2,17O,40« 


Total 84,899  170,259  6,058  85,581  210,898  192,942,072  f  68,160,blO 


TOWNS. 


8t  aunt  on  . . . 
Wlncheiter., 


Total 

Aggregateg. 


526'     2,8^9     108 
6141     8,005     675 


1,140      5,894,     783 


l,628j     8,800 


85,.5:39  176,153  5,»ll' .37,204  219,198 


909 

714 


R,90« 
4,394 


8 


[Doc.  No.  37.] 


TABLE    A.-Continued. 

Exhibiting  the  \chite  male  persons  over  21  years  of  age,  and  the  free  negro  and  slare 
population  of  each  county  and  city  in  the  state:  and  the  total  white  and  Jree  negro  and 
slare  population:  aho,  the  ralur  of  real  estate  and  personal  property  oicried  by  resi- 
dents of  each  county;  arranged  tiy  districts. 

TRANS-ALLEGHANY— Southwest. 


I'ooni.' 

Ituctianau 

Carroll 1 

Fayette !    1 

Floyd ]    1 

Grayson  1 

Greenbrier 2 

Giles 1 

Lee 1 

I.0|;Hn     

Mercer 1 

Monroe I    1 

Montgomery  1. 

McDowell I 

Pulaski 

Kaleiptli 

Kussell I    1 

Pcott I    2 

Smytli I    1 

THiewell 1 

'\VasliinKlon 

Wise 

Wyoming 

Wythe  


846; 
477 
,46S 
,115 
,351 1 
,3^5 
,24<<l 
,104! 
,S94, 
824' 
,1«t2' 
,057, 

»7(l, 
741 
641 

,51  ^ 
,nsO| 

,861; 
,710 
,602] 

747l 
455 
,997 


]\ 
SI 
10| 
16' 
S2i 


15''' 
8ft' 
262 
271 
47S 
547 


ISO,  1,525 

54'  779 

13  S24 

1:  U'^ 

28  862 

117  1,114 

139  2,217 

"i8:"l,5S9 

19  57 

51 !  1,099 

54'  490 

181'  1,037 

ni  1.202 

247i  2,548 

26|  66 

....  64 

1571  2,162 


4,S4ft 
2,798 
8,012 
5,997 
8,236 
8,252 

12,210 
fi,SS8, 

11,08<I 
4,93S 
6,8  IS 

10,7,'i7 

lo,0'5 
1.585 
6,M6 
J<,3rt7 

10,190 

i';,072 

«,95J 
9,920 

J6,''93 
4,508 
2,'*6I 

12,3i»5 


Total 31,526  16S,8S1  1,4S6  19,025  1^9.392  »51,91o,S3ol  »37.093,.Vi6 


[Doo.  No.  37.] 


TABLE    A.-Concluded. 

Exhibiting  the  white  male  persons  oi^er  2]  years  of  age,  and  the  free  negro  and  slave 
population  of  each  county  and  city  in  the  state;  and  the  total  white  and  free  negro  and 
slave  population;  also,  the  value  of  real  estate  and  personal  property  owned  by  resi- 
dents of  each  county;  arranged  by  districts, 

TRAN3-ALLEGHANY— Northwest. 


COUNTIES. 


Barbour 

Braxton 

Brooke 

Cabell 

Calhoun 

Clay 

Doddridge 

Oilmer 

Hancock 

Harrtoon. 

Jaeluon 

Kanarha 

Lewlf 

MarioD 

MaivhaU 

Mason 

Monongalia 

Klcholas 

Ohio 

Pleaiiants 

Preston  

Pocahontas 

Putnam  

Randolph  

Ritchie 

Roaae 

Taylor 

Tyler 

Tucker 

Upahnr 

Wayne « 

WeUel 

Webster 

Wirt 

Woo4 

Total 


5B^ 


1,762 
l.OOT 
1,023 

1,490 

4ao 

8'4 

93? 

644 

884 
2,668 
1,54.'> 
2,572 
1,4.54 
9,422 
2,187 
1,595 
2,415 

962 
4,186 

^51 
2,585 

823 
1,179 

940 
1,176 
1,0]  0 
1,894 
1,«12 

2,V5 
1,271 
1,271 
1,235 

188 

729 
9,639 


^ 


8,729 
4,885 
6,425 
7,691 
2,492 
1,761 
5.168 
8,685 
4,442 

13,185 
8,240 

18,787 
7,766 

12,656 

12,936 
8,752 

12,9ii7 
4,470 

22, '96 
2,926 

13,183 
8,686 
SJOS 
4,798 
6, 109 
5,809 
7,800 
6,488 
1,896 
7,064 
6,Wl4 
6,691 
1,552 
3,728 

10,791 


1.35 


95 
8     104 

611      18 
24     8'  5 


23     58  > 

11       .55 

179  2,184 

83     230 


47  386! 

40  101 1 

2  IH, 

126  lOo! 


20     J52 

13  680  [ 

14  1^3 

88 


f1     112 

11  18 

12  20 
16     819 

...      143 

2       10 

8 

23 

79     176 


8,959 
4,992 
5,494 
8,020 
2,.502 
1,787 
5,203 
3,7.59 
4,445 

13,790i 
8,.306 

16,150 
8,099 

12,721 

13,001 
9,18.5, 

13.0481 
4,626 

22.422 
2,945 

13,312 
3,9581 
6,301 
4,9901 
6,847 
6,382 
7,463 
6,517 
1,428 
7,292 
6.747 
6.703 
l,.^^5 
8,7.51] 

11.046 


784,487 

828,722 

1,493,722 

1,000,9S'S 

118,187 

85,1.58 

823,892 

846,447 

],<'18,708 

2,099,892 

4.58.791 

2,220,6'.;  r, 

860,271 

1,. 595,0.58 

1,054,491 

1,164,130 

1,814,232 

1,462,470 

4,476,616 

1.57.6'i7 

1,4:>7,204 

l,f«o,713 

l,a54,0.54 

645,668 

604,475 

890,465 

879,1.56 

807,748 

92,612 

741,8-9 

610,693 

878,893 

64,000 

224,1>81 

1,181,079 


48,898  255,801  1,027  6,448  868,676  »69,052,170  »3»,232,724 


2,868,066' 

996,9.52 
8,066,024 
2,186,9?5 

401,769 

180,364 
1,080'445 

766,642 
2,300,959 
5,021,996 
1,828,240 
8,297,941 
2,385,189 
8,806,648 
8,786,216 
2,774,860 
8,571,754 
1,30.5,6  5 
8,53S,904 

6.57,306! 
2,688,(t76 
1,877,S53| 
1,5 '8,495 
1,76.5,539 
1,307,004 

714,110 
1,841,748 
1,721.086 

292,380 
1,7.50,805 
1,066..521 

886,4.56; 

197.816 

683,819 
2,.59.5,777 


63 


10 


[Doc.  No.  37.1 


Recapitulation  of  Table 

A. 

1 

9 

8 

4 

6 

6 

T 

DISTRICTS. 

^  I. «; 

o 

|S£ 

d 

& 

5 

o 
a 

4) 

> 
— 

"3 

o 
H 

Value  of   real  es- 
tate. 

Value  of  personal 
estate. 

Tide-Water           

44,060    215,534  32.841 

179.502 

427,877 
496,671 
219,198 
189,392 
202,676 

88,300,769 
185,545,848 
92,942,072 
51,910,880 
69,052,170 

140,949,892 

50,050    231,778 

lG,044i  248,^9 

258,078,184 

Valley             

85,539    176,153 
31,526    168,881 
48,893    255,201 

5,841    37,204 
l,4«6l   19.1125 

63,160,810 

87,098,506 

Northwest 

1,027 

6,448 

82,282,724 

Aggregates 

210  6681,047,547 

57,289 

491,028 

1,695,814 

1437,751,689^  $496,509,616 

[DOC.  NO.  XXXYm.] 


REPORT 


OF  THE 


COMinEE  OF  ELECTIOSS, 


ON  THE  CASES  OF 


SHEBRABD  CLEMENS,  CilLEB  BOGGESS  AND  BENJAMIN  WILSON. 


[Doc.  No.  38.] 


REPORT. 


The  Committee  of  Elections  respectfully  submit  the  following 
report,  as  to  the  loyalty  and  disloyalty  of  Caleb  Boggess,  Sher- 
rard  Clemens  and  lienjamin  Wilson,  which  was  referred  to  them, 
viz: 

The  Committee  being  satisfied,  from  the  evidence  of  wit- 
nesses, that  Sherrard  Clemens  and  Caleb  Boggess  are  absent 
from  the  Convention  by  reason  of  disloyalty  to  the  Common- 
wealth of  Virginia,  and  the  Confederate  States;  therefore,  the 
Committee  have  come  to  the  following  conclusion,  viz: 

Resolved,  That  the  said  Sherrard  Clemens  and  Caleb  Boggess 
be  and  are  hereby  expelled  from  this  Convention. 

The  Committee  have  no  evidence  of  disloyalty  of  Benjamin 
Wilson,  nor  to  explain  the  cause  of  his  absence  from  the  Con- 
vention, and  they  ask  to  be  discharged  from  further  considera- 
tion of  the  case  of  Benjamin  Wilson. 

A.  F.  RAYMOND,  Chairman, 


[DOC.  NO.  XL] 


]VI  E  s  s  ^  a  E 


FROM  THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


TRANSMITTING  A 


REPORT 


OF 


WM.  H.  PETERS,  COMMISSIONER, 


APPOINTED  BY  THE  GOVERNOR  TO  MAKE  AN  INVENTORY  OF 


AT  THE 


NAVY  YARD,  GOSPORT, 


AND  IN  AND  NEAR 


PORTSMOUTU,  VIRGINIA. 


[Doo.  No.  40.] 


MESSAGE. 


Executive  Department, 
November  30, 1861. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention: 

On  the  18th  day  of  this  month  I  sent  to  your  honorable  body 
a  communication,  supplemental  to  one  sent  on  the  17th  day  of 
June  last,  in  which  I  stated  that  I  would  transmit,  so  soon  as 
printed,  reports  of  the  value  of  the  property  captured  at  the  Navy- 
Yard  and  Harper's  Ferry.  The  reports  are  herewith  communi- 
cated. The  property  is  in  possession  of  the  Confederate  Govern- 
ment, for  use  during  the  war. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


[Doo.  No.  40.] 


REPORT. 


Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Va.,") 
October  19,  1861.     y 

Si?', — I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  herewith,  in  compHance 
with  the  directions  of  the  department,  inventories  of  all  the 
public  property"  on  this  station  which  was  taken  on  the  2 1st  of 
April,  ISGl,  in  the  name  of  tlie  Commonwealth  of  Vii-ginia. 

The  infirmation  embraced  in  the  documents  herewith  for- 
warded will  be  found  classified  in  separate  papers,  marked  A, 
B,  0,  D,  E  and  F. 

Paper  A  embraces  lists  of  all  the  fixed  property — such  as 
territory,  buildings  and  other  permanent  improvements — ships 
and  other  ve.ssels,  steam  engines,  machinery,  tfcc.  &c. 

Paper  B  comprises  lists,  as  nearly  correct  and  in  as  full  detail 
as  is  practicable,  of  materials  and  stores  of  every  description 
that  were  on  hand  in  the  several  departments  on  the  2lst  of 
April,  1861,  when  pos.Tession  of  the  station  was  taken  in  the 
name  of  Virginia. 

Paper  C  is  a  report  of  expenditures,  as  near  as  can  be  arrived 
at,  of  naval  supplies  during  the  time  the  establishment  was 
under  the  control  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Virginia,  viz:  from 
the  21st  of  April  to  the  3Uth  of  June,  1861. 

Paper  D  comprises  lists,  as  nearly  correct  as  is  practicable,  of 
materials  and  supplies  of  every  description  that  were  in  the 
several  departments  on  the  30th  of  Juno,  1861,  when  the  Con- 
federate Slates  assumed  charge  and  control  of  the  establishment. 

Paper  E  is  a  statement  of  disbursements  by  the  Common- 
wealth for  purposes  connected  with  this  naval  station,  from  the 
2lst  of  April  to  the  30th  of  June,  1861. 

Paper  F  is  a  general  recapitulation  of  the  value  of  property  at 
Norfolk  and  Portsmouth,  taken  in  the  name  of  Virginia  on  the 
2lst  of  April,  1861;  the  value  of  that  expended  from  the  21st  of 
April  to  the  30lh  of  June,  1861,  and  the  value  of  that  turned 
over  for  the  use  of  the  Confederate  States  on  the  1st  of  July,  1861. 

To  enable  the  deparnnent  to  comprehend  the  extent  ol"  terri- 
tory referred  to  in  these  reports,  its  position  in  the  harbor,  and 
the  position  of  the  various  buildings,  I  firward  also  herewith, 
four  separate  plans — one  (original)  of  ihe  harbor  of  Norfolk  and 


6  [Doo.  No.  40.] 

Portsmouth,  on  which  will  be  found  indicated  the  navy  yard, 
St.  Helena,  marine  hospital  at  Washington  Point,  the  naval 
hospital  and  the  magazine  at  Fort  Norfolk;  one  (a  tracing)  of 
plan  of  the  navy  yard  proper,  showing  the  buildings  and  other 
improvements  now  standing,  as  well  as  those  that  were  destroyed 
by  the  enemy  on  the  night  of  the  20th  of  April,  1861;  one  (a 
tracing)  of  the  hospital,  and  the  grounds  surrounding  it;  and  a 
plan  (original)  of  the  grounds  and  improvements  at  Fort  Norfolk. 

In  determining  the  value  of  the  property  enumerated  in  paper 
A,  I  was  aided  by  officers  of  the  Confederate  States  navy  on 
duty  at  this  post,  who,  at  my  request,  were  directed  by  Flag 
Officer  Forrest,  C.  S.  navy,  to  cooperate  with  me  in  this  duty. 
Navy  Constructor  John  L.  Porter  and  Master  Carpenter  James 
Meads  were  associated  with  me  in  estimating  the  value  of  the 
vessels  and  wrecks  of  vessels;  Chief  Engineers  William  P. 
Williamson  and  M.  Q,uinn,the  engines  and  machinery;  Master 
Joiner  James  A.  Williams  and  Master  Mason  L.  C.  Adams,  the 
buildings  and  other  improvements;  and  Naval  Store  Keeper  R. 
M.  Boykin,  the  territory. 

Excepting  the  last  named  officer,  there  was  happily  no  mate- 
rial difference  of  opinion  between  these  gentlemen  and  myself 
as  to  the  value  of  the  property  we  were  directed  to  appraise,  and 
we  cordially  concurred  in  the  reports  which  accompany  paper  A, 
and  which  will  be  found  numbered  from  1  to  7,  inclusive. 
Naval  Store  Keeper  Boykin's  valuation  of  the  land  within  the 
navy  yard  enclosure  varies  very  materially  from  mine.  His 
paper  upon  th«!  subject,  as  well  as  my  own,  will  be  found  among 
the  papers  accompanying  A,  and  numbered  S. 

The  public  buildings  and  other  structures  enumerated  in  pa- 
per A  are,  with  few  exceptions,  of  the  first  class.  Many  of 
them^  particularly  those  recently  erected,  are  splendid  structures. 
Among  these  may  be  mentioned  the  foundry,  boiler  house, 
powder  magazine,  ordnance  building  and  provision  store.  No 
expense  has  been  spared  in  their  construction.  Every  means 
necessary  to  facilitate  thj  operations  carried  on  in  these  several 
buildings,  have  been  provided.  The  object  of  making  them 
thoroughly  comj)lete  has  been  fully  attained;  and  for  the  pur- 
poses lor  which  they  were  designed  and  for  which  they  are  now 
used,  it  may  safely  be  said  they  are  unexcelled  in  any  part  of 
the  country. 

The  victualing  house,  not  quite  finished,  will  also,  when 
completed,  be  a  first  class  fire-proof  building.  This  structure 
was  erected  under  contract,  by  private  individuals,  to  whom 
there  appears  to  be  due,  for  materials  and  labor  employed  upon  it, 
fifteen  thousand  one  hundred  and  seventy  dollars  and  twenty- 
nine  cents  (.*?<1 5,170  29;)  for  which  they  hold  properly  authenti- 
cated vouchers.    Of  this  sum  there  is  due  to  F.  W.  Parmenter, 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  7 

of  New  York,  $1,585  33.  This,  it  is  presumed,  will  be  for- 
feited, under  the  act  of  Congress.  The  remaining  claims,  viz: 
one  of  $4,542  76,  in  favor  of  J,  E.  McWilh'ams,  of  Portsmouth, 
Virginia,  and  the  other,  of  $9,042  20,  held  by  the  Bank  of  Vir- 
ginia at  Portsmouth,  will,  it  is  supposed,  be  presented  to  the 
proper  tribunal  for  adjudication. 

'J'he  naval  hospital  near  Portsmouth  is  located  at  the  most 
beautiful  and  healthy  point  in  the  harbor.  It  is  built  of  free 
stone  and  granite,  and  is  capable  of  accommodating  six  hun- 
dred patients.  It  is  provided  with  every  convenience  and  ap-  . 
pliance  needed  for  the  objects  for  which  it  was  designed.  All 
the  necessary  dependencies  for  a  first  class  hospital — such  as  sur- 
geon's dwelling,  keeper'.**  house,  cemetery,  stables,  &c.  tfec,  are 
provided;  and  the  grounds  are  covered  with  a  growth  of  shade 
trees. 

The  new  custom  house  at  Norfolk,  recently  finished  and 
occupied,  is  built  of  fine  hammered  granite,  and  is  thoroughly 
fire-proof  The  old  custom  house  is  a  dilapidated  building,  un 
worthy  of  reparation,  and  valueless,  except  so  far  as  the  old 
materials  may  be  considered. 

The  marine  hospital  at  Washington  Point  has  been  in  use  for 
many  years.  It  is  a  brick  building,  and  has  been  found  amply 
commodious  for  the  purposes  for  which  it  was  designed  and 
been  appropriated,  namely,  the  accommodation  of  the  sick  of 
the  commercial  marine  of  this  port. 

The  improvements  at  <'St.  Helena"  are  few,  and  of  but  little 
value.  The  dwelling  for  the  keeper's  use  is  a  small  building, 
or  rather  an  aggregation  of  buildings  of  small  dimensions.  The 
coal  house  there  needs  repairs,  the  walls  being  badly  sprung. 

It  is  difficult  to  estimate  the  value  of  property  destroyed  on 
the  night  of  the  20th  of  April,  ISOl,  when  the  Federal  forces, 
having  previously  fired  the  navy  yard,  evacuated  it.  The  ex- 
tensive row  of  buildings  on  the  north  front  of  the  yard,  con- 
taining large  quantities  of  manufactured  articles  and  valuable 
material — such  as  pivot  gun  carriages,  several  full  suits  of  sails 
for  frigates  and  sloops  of  war,  a  very  large  nun)ber  of  hammocks 
and  bags,  and  immense  quantities  of  canvas,  cordage,  I'cc.  t^c, 
were,  with  their  contents,  entirely  destroyed.  .Ship  houses  A 
and  B,  which  were  very  large  wooden  structures,  the  former 
containing  the  line  of  battle  ship  New  York,  on  the  stocks,  were 
also  totally  destroyed — so  also  were  the  buildings  used  as  bar- 
racks.    These  latter,  liowever,  were  of  but  little  value. 

The  total  destruction  of  every  ship  in  ordinary  at  this  station, 
except  the  fiigate  United  States,  was  attempted  and  in  part 
accomplished.  The  line  of  baule  ship  Pennvsylvania,  the  fri- 
gate Columbia  and  the  brig  Dolphin  were  burned  to  their  floor 
Jieads.     The  lower  bottom  timbers  and  keels  only  remain,  and 


8  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

are  visible  at  low  water.  The  frigate  Raritan  has  disappeared 
ahogether.  Whatever  is  left  of  her  is  out  of  sight  in  the  deep 
water  rhamiel  way.  The  steam  frigate  Merriniar.k  was  sunk 
and  burned  to  her  copper  line,  and  down  through  to  Iier  berth 
deck,  which,  with  her  spar  and  gun  decks,  were  also  burned. 
The  sloop  of  war  Germantown  was  sunk  and  burned  to  her 
bulwarks  on  the  port  side.  The  sloop  of  war  Plymouth  was 
scuttled  and  sunk.     No  other  damage  was  done  her. 

The  old  line  of  bnttle  ships  Delaware  and  Columbus  were 
scuiiled  and  sunk  at  their  moorings.  The  powder  boat  was  also 
scuttled  and  sunk.  The  frigate  United  States,  a  very  old  ship, 
and  unfit  tor  repairs,  received  no  damage  at  the  hands  of  the 
enemy.     She  was  in  no  way  molested. 

]\Iany  heavy  cannon  v  ere  spiked,  and  for  the  time  rendered 
useless;  but  they  have  since  heen  restored.  Some  had  their 
trunnions  hioken  off.  The  small  arms  (of  which  there  were  in 
the  yard  1,329  carbines,  274  rifled  n)uskets,  9;")(l  naval  pistols, 
and  337  Colt's  revolvers)  were  in  part  carried  olf  in  the  frigate 
Cumberland,  and   the  remainder  brolcon  and  thrown  overboard. 

The  dry  dock  did  not  escape  attention.  Twenty-six  barrels 
of  powder  (a  quantity  sufficient  to  have  destroyed  the  dock  and 
every  building  at  the  south  end  of  the  yard)  were  found  distri- 
buted in  the  culvert  on  its  north  side,  and  across  the  head  of  the 
dock.  These  barrels  were  connectod  by  a  train,  continuing  on 
to  the  inner  steps  at  the  bottom  of  the  dock,  where  it  is  supposed 
slow  matches  were  placed  for  ignition  at  a  preiirranged  moment. 
The  plan,  however,  was  happily  discovered  in  time  to  frustrate 
it.  Lieutenant  C.  F.  M.  Spotswood,  of  the  navy,  to  whom 
the  discovery  was  reported  early  on  the  morning  of  the  21st, 
promptly  directed  the  opening  of  the  gates,  when  the  dock  was 
flooded,  and  thus  saved  from  destruction. 

In  reference  to  the  reports  embraced  in  papers  B,  C  and  D,  it 
is  proper  I  should  remark  that  they  are  not  so  minute  and  in 
sucli  detail  as  might  be  desired.  It  will  be  remembered  that  I 
entered  upon  my  duties  on  the  26th  of  August  ultimo,  and  that 
my  instructions  limit  me  to  reports  of  operations  commencing  on 
the  2lst  of  April,  continuing  on  and  ending  the  30th  of  .lune. 
Large  expenditures  have  been  made  since  the  period  at  which, 
my  reports  conclude.  The  dilficulty,  therefore,  if  not  impossi- 
bility of  enumerating  every  article  expended  from  the  21st  of 
April  to  the  30th  of  June,  and  on  hand  the  30ih  of  June  (a 
period  of  nearly  two  months  anterior  to  the  date  of  my  entrance 
on  duty,)  will  be  readily  perceived.  Besides,  the  intense  ex- 
citement pervading  this  entire  community,  as  well  within  as 
M'ithout  the  navy  yard,  at  the  time  of  its  attempted  destruction, 
and  for  many  days  thereafter;  the  momentary  calls  on  this  re- 
pository for  every  available  means  of  defence  against  aa  appre- 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  9 

hended  attack  from  the  enemy  at  this  and  at  other  points,  and 
the  urgent  necessity  of  a  prompt  compliance  with  these  calls, 
was  well  calculated  to,  and  did  prevent  the  observance  of  any 
regular  system  of  registry.  I  have  spared  no  effort,  however, 
in  arriving  at  as  correct  results  as  are  practicable  under  the  cir- 
cumstances; and  although  the  information  embraced  in  the  items 
now  under  consideration  may  not  be  as  full  and  in  such  detail  as 
the  department  could  wish,  the  total  amounts  therein  reported 
may  be  relied  on  as  nearly  if  not  quite  correct. 

1  had  purposed  offering  some  remarks  upon  the  vast  impor- 
tance to  Virginia,  and  to  the  entire  South,  of  the  timely  acquisi- 
tion of  this  extensive  naval  depot,  with  its  immense  supplies  of 
munitions  of  war,  and  to  notice  briefly  the  damaging  effects  of 
its  loss  to  the  government  at  Washington;  but  I  deem  it  unne- 
cessary, since  the  presence  at  almost  every  exposed  point  on  the 
whole  Southern  coast,  and  at  the  numerous  inland  intrenched 
camps  in  the  several  States,  of  heavy  pieces  of  ordnance,  with 
their  equipments  and  fixed  ammunition,  all  supplied  from  this 
establishment,  fully  attests  the  one,  while  the  unwillingness  of 
the  enemy  to  attempt  demonstrations  at  any  point,  from  which 
he  is  obviously  alone  deterred  by  the  knowledge  of  its  well 
fortified  condition,  abundantly  proves  the  other — especially  when 
it  is  considered  that  both  he  and  we  are  wholly  indebted  for  our 
means  of  resistance  to  his  loss  and  our  acquisition  of  the  Gosport 
navy  yard. 

1  cannot  close  this  report  without  a  brief  reference  to  the  dis- 
tinguished and  veteran  officer  who  presides  over  and  directs  this 
vast  establishment;  and  iji  doing  so,  I  avail  myself  of  the  occa- 
sion to  make  a  formal  acknowledgment  of  the  distinguished 
courtesy  he  has  extended  to  me,  and  the  prompt  energy  with 
Avhich  he  has  facilitated  my  operations  in  appraising  the  property 
on  this  station. 

My  report,  as  I  have  remarked,  would  be  incomplete,  did  I 
fail  to  go  beyond  this  mere  personal  acknowledgment,  and  state, 
that  on  the  21st  of  April  he  took  formal  possession  of  the  public 
works  at  this  point,  and  hoisted  the  flag  of  Virginia. 

On  the  evacuation  and  surrender  of  the  yard,  Flag  Ofiicer 
French  Forrest,  thus  commissioned  by  His  Excellency,  Governor 
Letcher,  assumed  command. 

Since  that  time,  by  his  prompt  exertions,  he  has  evoked  order 
cut  of  chaos,  method  out  of  confusion,  and  with  great  labor, 
reorganized  the  establishment. 

I  may  perhaps  be  anticipating  the  work  of  his  bingra])her, 
when  1  venture  the  remark,  that  on  the  secession  of  Virginia  he 
promptly  resigned  the  high  rank  he  liad  deservedly  attained  in 
the  Federal  navy,  and  leaving  his  property  to  the  tender  mercies  of 
the  Washington  Hapsburgs,  came  to  serve  the  land  of  his  nativity. 
55 


10  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

To  doubt  that  his  sacrifices  and  services  will  be  remembered 
by  posterity  and  appreciated  bv  the  Commonwealth,  would  be 
to  impeach  the  gratitude  of  the  one  and  the  generosity  of  the 
other. 

This  personal  tribute,  well  considered  and  deliberately  written, 
closes  the  report  which,  under  your  Excellency's  instructions,  I 
have  had  the  honor  to  prepare. 

With  great  respect,  I  am  sir, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

WM.  H.  PETERS,  Com'r. 

His  Excelleiicy,  John  Letcher, 

Governor  of  Virgiiiia, 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  11 


A. 


REPORT  OF  BUILDINGS  AND  OTHER  PERMANENT  IMPROVEMENTS. 

Report  of  the  Value  of  La?ids  at  the  Nojfolk  Station,  taken  posses- 
sion of  in  the  name  of  Virginia,  ofi  the  2lst  of  April,  1861. 


Navy  Yard,  proper,  containing  86  acres,  -  246,000  00 

St.  Helena,                   "            38    ''  -  12,000  00 

Naval  Hospital,            "          100     «  -  20,000  00 

Fort  Norfolk,               «             6    "  -  10,000  00 


$288,000  00 


WM.  H.  PETERS,  Com'r. 
Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Va.,  Sept.  30,  1861. 


12  [Doc.  No.  40.] 


REPORT 

Of  the  Buildings  ajid  other  Perinanent  Improvements  within  the 
enclosure  of  the  Navy  Yard  at  Gosport^  St.  Helena,  Naval 
Hospital  near  Portsmouth,  Magazine  at  Fort  Norfolk,  and 
other  places  in  the  vicitiiti/. 


No.  on 
plan. 

Navy  Yard : 

3.  Commandant's  Dwelling,  -  -  $20,000  00 
2.  Commander's  Dwelling,  -  -  15,000  00 
1.  Surgeon's  Dwelling,  -  -  12,000  00 
7.  Smithery  and  its  dependencies,  -  -  60,000  00 
6.  Iron  and  Copper  Store  House,      -             -  20,000  00 

12.  Joiner's  Work  Shop  and  Timber  Store  House,      25,000  00 
5.  Galley  Store  House  and  Furniture  Rooms,  30,000  00 

4.  Store  House  for  Provisions  and  Clothing,  50,000  00 

13.  Store  House  for  Miscellaneous  Stores,       -  18,000  00 

14.  Store  House  for  Miscellaneous  Stores,  -  35,000  00 
17.  Timber  Shed,  in  progress,  -  -  10,000  00 
29.  Mast  House,  with  Canal,  -  -  75,000  00 
28.  Boat  House,  ....  25,000  00 
27.  Timber  Shed,  ....  18,000  00 
20.  Timber  Shed,  ....  18,000  00 
25.  Cooperage  and  Store  House  for  Tanks,  -  18,000  00 
24.  Timber  Shed,  -  '  -  -  -  18,000  00 
50.  Timber  Shed,  ....  18,000  00 
36.  Lieutenant  and  Master's  Dwelling,  -  20,000  00 
48.  Timber  Shed,  -  -  -  -  18,000  00 
45.  Dry  Dock,  granite  and  its  appurtenances,  900,000  00 
31.  Ship  House,  in  progress,              -            -  30,000  00 

Timber  Dock,  granite,  cross  walls  and  piers,  250,000  00 

62.  Saw  Mill  House,               -            -            -  15,000  00 

84.  Tar  House,           ....  1,000  00 

64.  Pitch  House,  No.  1,          -            -            -  2,500  00 

39.  Boiler  Shop  and  Smithery,  No.  2,            -  30,000  00 

34.  Burnetizing  House  and  Block  Shop,        -  30,000  00 

43.  Carpenters'  Work  Shop,  -  -  -  40,000  00 
33.  Reservoir,  containing  200,000  gallons,  and 

guttering,          ....  20,000  00 
80.  Victualing  and  Provision  House,  -            -       -^  •  100,000  00 

22.  Stables, 20,000  00 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  13 

18.  Old  Bulding  used  as  offices,         -            -  500  00 
15.  Reservoir,  containing  124,000  gallons,      -  8,000  00 

Launching  Slips  and  Quay  Walls,  granite,  500,000  00 

11,  Ordnance  Building,          -            -            -  100,000  00 

Gas  Fixtures,        -            -    ,         -            -  7,000  00 

A.  Remains  of  Buldings  on  north  front,       -  6,000  00 

Varnish  House,    ....  1,200  00 

19.  Old  Smith's  Shop,  -  -  -  1,000  00 
Watch  House,      ....  300  00 

46.  Engine  House  and  Machine  Shop  and 

dependencies,            -            -            .  150,000  00 

47.  Foundry  and  its  dependencies,  -  -  200,000  00 
Pitch  House,  ....  1^000  00 
Paint  Mill  House,  -  -  .  .300  00 
3  Iron  Landing  Cranes,               -            -  9,000  00 


$2,944,800  00 


Improvements  at  St.  Helena: 

Coal  House,  ....  5,000  00 

Shell  House,  ....  1,000  00 

Gun  Skids,  .  -  .  -  1,100  00 

Dwelling  House,         ....  1,200  00 


.f  8,300  00 


Improvements  at  Naval  Hospital,  near  Portsmouth: 

Naval  Hospital  and  its  dependencies,               -  600,000  00 

Surgeon's  Dwelling,                 -             -            .  12,000  00 

Keeper's  Dwelling,     ....  1,000  00 

Cemetery,        .....  3,800  00 

Sea  Wall,        .            .            .            .            .  6,000  00 


$622,800  00 


Improvements  at  Naval  Magazine,  Fort  Norfolk: 

Powder  Magazine,  first  class  building,            -  67,193  00 

Keeper's  House,          ....  3,800  00 

Shell  House  and  Filling  House,          -            .  3,000  00 

Reservoir,  containing  90,000  gallons,              -  5,000  00 

Stone  Pier  and  Iron  Crane,     -            -            -  52,587  68 

Sea  Wall,        .....  5,000  00 

$136,580  68 


14  [Doc.  ]S"o.  40.] 

Improvements  at  other  points: 

Marine  Hospital  at  Washington  Point,  including^ 

site  and  grounds,              -            -            -  19,000  00 

New  Custom  House  at  Norfolk,  including  site,  200,000  00 

Old  Custom  House  at  Norfolk,            -            -  7,000  00 


$226,000  00 


RECAPITriLATION. 


fC 


Improi'ements  at  Navy  Yard,  -  -  2^944,800  00 

"                St.  Helena,  -  -  8,300  00 

«               Naval  Hospital,  -  -  622,800  00 

«               Naval  Magazine,  -  -  136,580  68 

other  points,  -  -  226,000  00 

$3,938,480  68 


WM.  H.  PETERS,  Com'r. 

Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Va.,  Sept.  20, 1861. 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  15 


REPORT 

Of  Vessels  at  the  Navy  Yard,  Crosport,  and  their  Value  in  the 
condition  they  were  in  oti  the  2lst  of  April,  1661,  the  day  on 
which  possession  of  the  establishment  was  taken  Mi  the  na/ine 
of  Virginia. 


Merrimack,  steam  frigate,        -            -            -  225,000  00 

Plymouth,  first  class  sloop,     -            -            -  40,000  00 

Germantown,  first  class  sloop,             -            -  25,000  00 

Pennsylvania,  line  of  battle  ship,        -             -  6,000  00 

Delaware,  line  of  battle  ship,              .-             -  10,000  00 

Columbus,  line  of  battle  ship,             -            -  10,000  00 

Columbia,  frigate,        ....  5,000  00 

Dolphin,  brig,              ....  1^000  00 

Powder  Boat,               ....  800  00 

Water  Tank,                -            -            -            .  100  00 

United  States,              ....  10,000  00 


$332,900  00 


WM.  H.  PETERS,  Com'r. 
Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Va.,  Sej)t.  20, 1861. 


16  [Doo.  No.  40.] 


REPORT 

Of  Steavi  Engines  and  their  appurtcyiances;  the  Machinery, 
Tools,  i^c.  i^c.  in  the  several  departments  of  the  Navy  Yard 
at  Gosport,  and  their  value. 


Steam  Engines: 
Dry  Dock  Pumping  Engines,  6  Boilers  and  Pumps,     18,000  00 

Machine  Shop  Engine,  4  Boilers,  Shafting,  &c.  15,000  00 

Saw  Mill  Engine,  Boilers  and  Machinery,  12,000  00 

Block  Makers'  Engine,  Boilers  and  Fixtures,  5,000  00 
Timber  Dock  Engine,  Boiler,  Pumps  and  Paint 

Mills,             ....  3,000  00 

Boiler  Makers'  Engine  and  Shafting,              -  1,000  00 

4  Portable  Engines,  for  hoisting,  pumping,  dec.  4,800  00 

1  Dredging  Machine,  complete,           -             -  6,000  00 

3  Foundry  Crane  Engines,  -  -  -  1,000  00 
Arctic's  Engine,  -  -  -  -  3,000  00 
1  Blacksmith's  Engine  for  blowing  and  driving 

Machinery,  3  Flue  Boilers,  Shafting,  etc.  7,000  00 

1  Engine  in  Ordnance  Department,  Shafting,  6lq,.  2,500  00 

Tools  in  Machine  Shop: 

2  1st  Class  Lathes,     -            -            -            -  8,000  00 

4  2d  Class  Lathes,  ...  -  8,000  00 
33  3d  Class  Lathes,  ....  13,200  00 
1  1st  Class  Planer,      ....  7,500  00 

3  2d  Class  Planers,  ....  2,400  00 
6  3d  Class  Planers,  ....  2,000  00 
1  Boring  Mill,              ....  2,500  00 

4  Shaping  Machines,               -            -            -  2,200  00 

5  Drill  Presses,  -  -  '  -  -  2,500  00 
1  liolt  Cutter,  with  Taps  and  Dies,    -            -  250  00 

1  Shot  Cleaning  Machine,      .             -             -  250  00 

2  Gear  Cutting  Machines,  ...  800  00 
41  Bench  Vices,  ...  -  200  00 
Taps,  Dies,  Chisels,  Hammers,  Wrenches,  i!tc.  1,200  00 
Patterns  in  Pattern  Shop,        -            -            -  5,000  00 


Tools  in  Boiler  Shop: 
6  Punching  Machines,  -  -  -  7,000  CO 

8  Spearing  Machines,  Flanging  Clams,  &c,  7,000  00 


[Doa  No.  40.]  17 

2  Roller  Bending  Machines,  -            -            -  1,000  00 

1  Drill  Press,  ....  400  00 
Forges,  Anvils,  Hammers,  Reamers,  &.c.  &c.  200  00 

Fixtures  and  Tools  in  Foundry: 

4  Cranes,        .....  2,000  00 

2  Blowers  and  Pipes,  ...  500  00 
2  Cupolas,  complete,  -  -  -  1,500  00 
2  Drying  Ovens  for  Loam  and  Covers,  -  1,060  00 
15  Ladles,  .....  570  00 
174  Wooden  Flasks,  -  -  -  1,218  00 
102  Iron  Flasks,  ....  1.530  00 
27  Plates  and  Core  Barrels,  -  -  -  115  00 
2  Loam  Strikers,         ....  900  00 

1  Air  Fnrnace,            ....  4,900  UO 

2  Crucible  Furnaces,  ...  200  00 
1  Large  Pit,  granite,  -  -  -  10,000  00 
1  Deep  Circular  Pit,  iron,  -  -  -  5,000  00 
260,000  Pounds  old  Brass  and  Scrap  Iron,     -  7,660  00 

Fixtures  and  Tools  in  Block  Makers'  and  Joiners' 
Departments : 

4  Circular  Saws,         ....  900  00 

1  Coggin  Machine,     ....  565  00 

1  Greer's  Patent  Cutting  Machine,     -            -  500  00 

2  Drill  Presses,            ....  235  00 

2  Lathes,  .....  325  00 
1  Scroll  Saw,  -  -  -  -  175  00 
1  Wood  Planer,  ....  400  00 
1  Morticing  Machine,  ...  45  00 
Grindstones,  Benches,  Hand  Tools,  (fcc.        -  450  00 

Fixtures  and  Tools  in  Smiths'  Shop: 

53  Forges, 10,600  00 

3  Trip  Hammers,        -            -            -            -  2,100  00 

4  Formers,  -  -  .  -  -  -  80  00 
1  Shaft  Straightener,               ...  200  00 

22  Vices, 164  00 

7  Lathes, 1,400  00 

3  Drill  Presses,            ....  450  00 

1  Shearing  Machine,               ...  400  00 

1  Punching  Machine,              ...  100  00 

Air  Piping,                   ....  2,600  00 

HI  cwt.  Steam  Hammer,       -            -            -  1,500  00 

1  Fairbanks'  Scale,     ....  10  00 

Bolt  Cutting  Machine,  Taps,  Dies,  d:c.           -  150  00 

Fixtures  and  Tools  in  Plumbers'  Shop,          •  700  00 

56 


18  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

Fixtures  and  Tools  in  Ordnance  Department 

2  Wood  Planers,  .... 

1  Scroll  Saw,  .... 

1  Truck  Machine,  .  .  .  - 
9  Lathes,  .... 

2  Drill  Presses,  .... 
I  Circular  Saw,  .... 
5  Grind  Stones,  .... 
1  Planer,  .  .  .  - 
12  Vices,  .... 
1  Fairbanks'  Scale,  -            -            -            • 

Miscellaneous: 

S  Fire  Engines,  Hoses  and  Reels, 

.3  diving  Bells  and  Air  Pumps  lor  do. 

1  Diving  Dress,  .  .  .  . 

1   Pile  Cutting  Machine, 

3  Pile  Drivers,  .... 
Rail  Road  and  Cars, 


WM.  H.  PETERS,  ComV. 
JSavy  Yard,  Gosj)ort,  Va.,  Scj)t.  20,  1861. 


900  00 

190  00 

100  00 

1,475  00 

275  00 

130  00 

100  00 

400  00 

84  00 

20  00 

9,000  00 

10,000  00 

500  00 

200  00 

1,200  00 

15,000  00 

$250,676  00 

[Doc.  No.  40.]  19 


RECAPITULATION 
Of  First  Item,  or  Paper  A. 


Value  of  Territory,                -            -            -  288,000  00 

Value  of  Buildings  and  other  Improvements  3,938,480  68 

Value  of  Vessels,       ....  332,900  00 

Value  of  Engines,  Machinery,  &c.  &c.        -  250,676  00 

$4,810,056  68 


WM.  H.  PETERS,  Co7n'r. 
Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Va.,  Oct.  15,  1861. 


20  [Doc.  No.  40.] 


PAPERS  RELATING  TO,  AND  TO  ACCOMPANY  PAPAR  A,  FROM  NO.  1  TO 
NO.  8,  INCLUSIVE. 


(No.  1.) 


C.  S.  Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Va.  ) 
September  10,  1861.      \ 

The  undersigned  having  carefully  examined  and  appraised 
the  buildings  and  other  improvements  within  the  enclosure  of 
the  Navv  Yard  at  Gosport,  in  the  condition  they  were  in  when 
possession  of  it  was  taken  by  Flag  Officer  Forrest,  in  the  name 
of  Virginia,  ascertain  their  value  to  be  as  folio ws,  viz: 

Commandant's  Dwelling,        -            -            -  20,000  00 

Commander's  Dwelling,          -             -             -  15,000  00 

Surgeon's  Dwelhng,                 -             -             -  12,000  00 
Smithery,  including  Engine  House  and  Coal  House,     20,000  00 

Iron  and  Copper  Store  House,             -             -  20,000  00 

Joiner's  Work  Shop  and  Timber  Store  House,  25,000  00 

Galley  Store  House  and  Furniture  Rooms,     -  30,000  00 

Store  House  for  Provisions  and  Clothing,        -  50,000  00 

Store  House  for  Miscellaneous  Stores,              .  18,000  00 

Store  House  for  Miscellaneous  Stores,             -  35,000  00 

Timber  Shed,  in  progress,       -            -            -  10,000  00 

Mast  House,  with  Canal,         -            -            -  75,000  00 

Boat  House,                 ....  25,000  00 

Timber  Shed,              ....  18,000  00 

Timber  Shed,              ....  18,000  00 

Cooperage  and  Store  House  for  Tanks,  (fcc.    -  18,000  00 

Timber  Shed,              ....  18,000  00 

Timber  Shed,              ....  18,000  00 

Lieutenant's  and  Master's  Dwelling,               -  20,000  00 

Timber  Shed,               ....  18,000  00 

Dry  Dock,  granite,      ....  900,000  00 

Ship  House,  in  progress,         -            -            -  30,000  00 

Timber  Dock  (granite,)  cross  wall  and  piers,  250,000  00 

Saw  Mill  House,          ....  15,000  00 

Tar  HousC; 1;000  00 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  21 


Pitch  House,  No.  1,    - 

Boiler  Shop  and  Sinithery,  No.  2, 

Burnetizing  House  and  Block  Shop, 

Carpenters'  Work  Shop, 

Reservoir,  containing  200,000  gallons,  and 

glittering, 
"Victualing  and  Provision  House, 
Stables,  .... 

Old  Building,  used  as  offices, 
Reservoir,  containing  124,000  gallons, 
Four  Launching  Slips  and  Q.uay  Walls,  granite, 
Ordnance  Building,     - 
Fixtures  for  lighting  yard  with  gas. 
Remains  of  Building  on  north  front, 
Varnish  House, 
Old  Smiths'  Shop,       - 
Watch  House, 
Engine  House  and  Machine  Shop  at  Dry  Dock, 

including  Boiler  House  and  Stack, 
Foundry  and  Stack  at  Dry  Dock, 
Pitch  House  at  Dry  Dock, 
Paint  Mill  House, 
Three  Iron  Landing  Cranes, 


JAMES  A.  WILLIAMS,  Ma-^ter  Joiner, 
L.  O.  ADAMS,  Master  Mason. 

Wm.  H.  Peters, 

Comniissioner  on  the  part  of  Virginia. 


2,500  00 

30,000  00 

30,000  00 

40,000  00 

20,000  00 

100,000  00 

20,000  00 

500  00 

8,000  00 

:,    500,000  00 

100,000  00 

7,000  00 

5,000  00 

1,2(0  00 

1,000  00 

300  00 

1.50,000  00 

200,000  00 

1,000  00 

300  00 

9,000  00 

$2,944,800  00 

28 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


(Xo.  2.) 


C.  S.  Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  A'a. 
September  7,  1861. 


} 


The  undersigned  having  carefully  examined  and  appraised  the 
buildings  and  oth<,T  improvements  within  the  enclosure  of  that 
part  of  the  Naval  .Station  at  Norfolk  called  St.  Helena,  ascertain 
their  value  to  be  as  follows,  viz: 


Coal  House,     - 
Shell  House, 
Ciun  Skids, 
Dwelling  House, 


5,000  00 

1,000  00 

1,100  00 

1,200  00 

$8,300  00 


JAMES  A.  WILLIAMS,  Master  Joiner, 
L.  C.  ADAMS,  Master  Masoti. 

Wm.  H.  Peters, 

Commissioner  on  the  part  of  Virgi?iia, 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  23 


(No.  3.) 

!.  S.  Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Va. 
September  6,  1861. 


} 


Tlic  nndersigned  liaving  carefnlly  examined  and  appraised 
tlie  buildings  and  other  improvements  at  the  Naval  Hospital 
near  this  yard,  ascertain  their  value  to  be  as  follows,  viz: 

Naval  Hospital,  ....  600,000  00 

Surgeon's  Dwelling,  -             -             -  12,000  00 

Keeper's  Dwelling,  .            -            -            -  1,000  00 

Cemetery,  ....  3,800  00 

Sea  Wall,  -            -            -            -  •            6,000  00 

$622,800  00 


JAMES  A.  WILLIAMS,  Master  Joiner, 
L.  C.  ADAMS,  Master  Mason. 

Wm.  H.  Peters, 

Commissio7icr  on  t/ie  part  of  Vi?ginia. 


54  [Doc.  No.  40.] 


(No.  4.) 


C.  S.  Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Va. 
September  9,  1861. 


} 


The  undersigned  having  carefully  examined  and  appraised  the 
buildings  and  c)iher  improvements  at  the  Magazine,  Fort  Norfolk, 
ascertain  their  value  to  be  as  follows,  viz: 

Powder  Magazine  a  (first  class  building,)          -  67.193  00 

Kee|ier's  House,             ....  3,800  00 

Shell  House  and  Filling  House,            -             -  3,000  00 

Reservoir,  containing  90,000  gallons,                -  5,000  00 

Stone  Pier  and  Iron  Crane,       -             -             -  52,587  68 

Sea  Wall, 5,000  00 

$136,580  68 


JAMES  A.  WILLIAMS,  Master  Joiner, 
L.  C.  ADAMS,  Master  Mason. 

Wm.  H.  Peters, 

Commissioner  on  the  part  of  Virgi7iia, 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  25 


(No.  5.) 


C.  S.  Navy  Yard,  Gospokt,  Va. 
September  6,  1861. 


} 


The  undersigned  having  carefnlly  examined  the  public  pro- 
perty on  this  station,  other  than  t!iat  under  the  cognizance  of 
tiie  navy  department,  and  which,  with  all  other  public  property 
in  this  di.strict,  was  taken  possession  of  in  the  name  of  Virginia 
on  the  21st  of  April,  ISGl,  ascertain  their  value  to  be  as  follows, 
viz: 

Marine  Hospital  at  Washington  Point,  including 

site  and  gronnds,               -             -             -  19,000  00 

New  Custom  Honso  at  Norfolk,  including  site,  200,000  00 

Old  Custom  House  at  Norfolk,  including  site,  7,000  00 


$226,000  00 


JAS.  A.  WILLIAMS,  Master  Joiner, 
L.  C.  ADAMS,  Master  Mason. 

Wm.  H.  Pr:TF;RS, 

Commissioner  on  the  part  of  Virginia. 


&7 


26 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


(No.  6.) 


C.  S.  Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  \a.\ 
September  10,  1861.      y 

Upon  an  (ixamination  of  the  vessels  at  this  yard,  in  the  con- 
dition they  were  in  when  the  same  were  taken  by  Fhig  OtHcer 
French  Forrest,  in  the  name  of  Virginia,  viz:  the  2tst  of  April, 
ISOl,  we  ascertain  their  value  to  be  as  follows,  viz: 


Morrimac,  steam  frigate, 
Plynionth,  first  class  sloop, 
CJorniantown,  first  class  sloop, 
Pennsylvania,  line  batlle  ship, 
Delaware,  line  battle  ship, 
Columbus,  line  battle  ship, 
Columbia,  frigate, 
Raritan,  frigate. 
Dolphin,  brig, 
Powder  Boat, 
Water  Ta!ik, 
United  Stales, 


225.000  no 

40,(100  00 
25,000  00 

6,00tl  00 
10,000  00 
10,000  00 

5,000  00 

1,000  00 

J^OO  00 

100  00 

10,000  00 

8332,900  00 


JOHN  L.  PORTER,  A^.  C. 
J  AS.  MEAD,  M.  Carpenter. 


Wm.  II.  Petkrs, 

Commissioner  on  the  part  of  Virgima, 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  27 


(No.  7.) 

C.  S.  Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Va. 
September  IG,  18G1. 


} 


The  undersigned  having  carefnlly  examined  the  Engines  and 

their  appurtenances,  the  Machinery,  Tools,  &c.  &.C.,  in  the 
several  departments  of  this  yard,  ascertain  their  value  to  be  as 
follows,  viz: 

Steam  Engines: 
Dry  Dock  Pumping  Engines,  6  Boilers  and 

Pumps,     -            -            -            .            .  18,000  00 
Machine  Shop  Engine,  4  Boilers,  Shafting, 

Pnllies,  &c.          -             -             -             -  15,000  00 

Saw  Mill  Engine,  Boilers,  and  Machinery,  -  12,000  00 
Block  Makers  Engine,  Boiler  and  Burnetizing 

Fixtures,              ....  5,000  00 
Timber  Dock  Engine,  Boiler,  Pumps  and  Paint 

Mills, 3,000  00 

Boiler  xMakers' Engine  and  Shafting,               -  1,000  00 

4  Portable  Engines  for  hoisting,  pumping,  &c.  4,800  00 

1  Dredging  Machine,  complete,          -             -  6,000  00 

3  Foundry  Crane  Engines,  -  -  -  1,000  00 
Arctic's  Engine,  -  -  -  ^  -  3,000  00 
1  Blacksmiths'  Engine  for  blowing  and  driving 

machinery,  3  Flues,  Boilers,  Shafting,  ifcc.  7,000  00 

1  Engine  in  Ordnance  Department,  Shafting,  &.c.  2,500  00 

Tools  in  Machine  Shop: 

2  First  Class  Lathes,              -             -             -  8,000  00 

4  Second  do.  -  -  -  -  8,000  00 
33  Third  do.  -  -  -  -  13,200  00 
1  First  Class  Planer,               -            -            -  7,500  00 

3  Second  do.  -  -  -  -  2,41)0  00 
6  Third  do.  -  -  -  -  2,000  00 
1  Boring  Mill  (vertical),          -            -            -  2,500  00 

4  Shaping  Machines,              -            -            -  2,200  00 

5  Drill  Presses,  .  .  .  .  2,500  00 
1  Bolt  Cutter,  with  Taps  and  Dies,    -            -  250  00 

1  Shot  Cleaning  Machine,       -             -             -  250  00 

2  Gear  Cutting  Machines,      ...  800  00 


28  [Doc.  Xu.  40.] 

41  Benrh  Vices,          ....  200  00 
Taps,  Dies,  Chisels,  Hammers,  Wrenches,  Boring 

Bars,  Blacksmiths'  Tools,  etc.  &c.          -  1,200  00 

Patterns  in  pattern  loft,            -            -            -  5,000  00 

Tools  in  Boiler  Shop: 

5  Punching  Machines,  -  -  -  7,000  00 

3  Shearing  Machines,  Flanging  Clamps  and 

Fnrnaee,               ....  7,000  00 

2  Roller  Bending  Machines,  -            -            -  1,000  00 

1  Drill  Press,               ....  400  00 
Forges,  Anvils,  Hammers,  Reamers,  Tubing 

Tools,  Formers,  &c.  ifcc.  (fcc.      -  -  200  00 

Fixtures  and  Tools  in  Foundry: 

4  Cranes,        .  .  .  .  . 

2  Blowers  and  Pipes, 

2  (Jupolas,  complete,  ... 

2  Drying  Ovens,  for  loam  and  cores, 
15   Ladles,        .  .  -  -  . 

174  Wooden  Flasks, 

102  Iron  Flasks,  .  .  .  . 

27  Plates  and  Core  Barrels,    - 
2  Loam  Strikers,         .... 

1  Air  Furnare,  .... 

2  Crurihle  Furnaces, 
1  Large  Pit,  granite, 
1   Deep  Circiik^r  Pit,  iron, 
260,000  lbs.  old  Bras^,  at  20  cents,      - 
Scrap  Cast  Iron,  ....  900  00 

Fixtures  and  Tools  in  Block  ^Makers'  and 
Joniers'  Department: 

4  Circular  Saws,         .... 

1  Cogging  Machine, 

1  Grrer's  Patent  Cutting  Machine,     - 

2  Drill  Presses,  .... 

2  Lathes,         .  .  .  .  - 
1  Scroll  Saw,               .             .             .  . 
1  Wood  I'lancr,           .             .             -  - 
1  I\Ior:ising  Machine, 
Grindstones,  Benches,  Hand  Tools,  &c. 

Fixtures  and  Tools  in  Blacksmiths'  Shops: 
53  Forges,       .  .  .  .  - 

3  Trip  Hammers,       .  ,  .  . 


2,000  00 

500  00 

1 ,500  00 

1,000  00 

570  00 

1,218  00 

1,530  00 

115  00 

000  00 

4,900  00 

200   00 

10.(100  00 

5,000  00 

0,700  00 

900 

00 

505 

00 

500 

00 

235 

00 

325 

00 

175 

00 

400 

00 

45 

00 

450  00 

10,600  GO 

2,100  00 

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4  Formers,  -----  SO  00 
1  Sliaft  Straishteiier,  -  -  -  200  00 
22  Vices,      ^.            .            •            -            -  104  00 

7  Lathes, 1,400  00 

3  Drill  Presses,           ...            -  450  00 

1  Sheaving  Machine,               -             -             -  400  00 

1  Punching  Machine,              -             -             -  100  00 

Air  Piping, 2,600  00 

1   11  cwt.  Steam  Hammer,      -             -             -  1;500  00 

1  Fairbanks'  Scales,  -  -  -  10  00 
Bolt  Cutting  Macliinc,  Taps  and  Dies,  (fcc.  6cc.  150  00 
Fixtures  and  Tools  in  Plumber's  Shop,          -  TOO  00 

Fixtures  and  Tools  in  Ordnance  Bulding: 

2  Wood  Planers,  ...  -  900  00 
1  Scroll  Saw,               ...             -  190  00 

1  Truck  Machine,  -  .  -  -  100  00 
9  Lathes,        -----  1,475  00 

2  Drill  Presses,  -  .  -  -  -  275  00 
1    Circular  Saw,           -             -             .             -  i:jO  00 

5  Grindstones,  -  -  .  -  100  00 
1  Planer,        -----  40l)  00 

12  Vices, 84  00 

1  Fairbanks'  Scales,                -            .            .  20  00 

Miscellaneous: 

8  Fire  Engines,  Hoses  and  Reels,      -            -  9,000  00 

3  Diving  Bells  and  Air  Pumps  for  do.  -  10,000  00 
1  Diving  Dress,  .  -  -  -  500  00 
1  Pile  Cutting  Machine,  -  -  -  200  00 
3  Pile  Dii vers,  .  .  -  -  1,200  00 
Rail  Road  and  Cars,    -             -            -            -  15,000  00 


$250,676  00 


WM.  P.  WHJJAMSON, 

C'/tiff  Engineer  C.  S.  N. 

J.  W.  QUINN, 

Chief  Engineer  C.  S.  A. 


Wm.  H.  Petkrs, 

Commissioner  07i  the  part  of  Virginia. 


so  [Doc.  No.  40.] 


(No.  8.) 


Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Va. 
September  30;  1861. 


} 


Sir  J — Naval  Storekeeper  R.  M.  Boykin,  who  was  instmcted 
by  you  to  cooperate  witb  me  in  fixing  the  value  of  the  landed 
possessions  of  the  government  on  this  station,  has  handed  me  a 
duplicate  of  his  report  to  you.  It  appears  that  we  agree  as  to 
the  value  of  the  Hospital  and  Fort  Norfolk  lands:  and  I  am 
willing  to  adopt  his  estimate  of  the  St.  Helena  lands,  viz:  twelve 
thousand  dollars  ($12,000);  but  I  cannot  accept  his  estimate  of 
the  land  within  the  Navy  Yard  enclosure.  Then;  is  embraced 
within  this  area  eighty-six  acres  (86),  with  a  continuous  deep 
water  front  of  2,020  feet.  Water  front  property  in  the  vicinity 
of  the  Yard  sells  for  about  one  hundred  dollars  per  foot.  I 
assume  one-half  this  sum  as  the  value  of  the  Navy  Yard  front, 
conceding  to  it  twenty  acres  of  land,  which  is  amply  sufficient 
for  all  commercial  and  mercantile  purposes. 

I  thus  have  2,920  feet  at  850,  -  -  146,000  00 

There  remains  66  acres  of  land,  all  well  drained; 

and  in  part  paved — I  value  this  at  -  100,000  00 

Total  value  of  territory  within  enclosure,      $246,000  00 


One  hundred  thousand  dollars  is  about  one-half  the  value  of 
similar  land  adjacent  to  the  Yard. 

I  am,  sir, 

Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

WM.  H.  PETERS;  CowV. 

J^ag  Officer  F.  Forrest, 

Commandant  Naval  Station,  Norfolk, 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  31 


(No.  8.) — Duplicate, 


September  30,  1861. 

Sir, — Agreeably  to  your  order  of  the  4th  instant,  I  have  co- 
operaled  with  Mr.  Coinniissioner  Peters  in  assessing  the  vahiB 
of  the  landed  possessions  on  this  station,  wfiich  reverted  to  the 
State  of  Vnginia  on  her  secession  from  the  late  Federal  Union, 
and  respectfully  submit  the  following: 

In  assessing  the  value  of  the  Hospital  and  Fort  Norfolk  lands, 
I  am  pleased  to  say  there  is  no  discrepancy.  I  consider  twelve 
thousand  dollars  the  value  of  the  St.  Helena  land,  and  forty- 
three  tliousand  the  full  value  of  the  lands  contained  within  the 
Navy  Yard  enclosure. 

I  am,  sir. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

R.  M.  BOYKIN. 

Flag  Officer  French  Forrest, 

Commauditig  C  S.  Navy  Yard,  Gosport. 


33  [Doc.  No.  40.] 


REPORT  OF  ARTICLES  ON  DAND  21ST  APRn.,  1861,  WHEN  POSSESSION 
WAS  TAKEN  IN  TUE  NAME  OF  VIRGINIA. 


REPORT 


Of  Oi-dnnnrc  and  Orflnnnce  Stores  on  hand  at  the  Gnsport  Navy 
Yard  on  the  2{st  April,  1861,  when  jjossessh/i  of  it  was  taken 
i/i  the  name  of  Virginia. 


1  ll-inch  Columbiad; 

2  lU-innli  Guns; 
52  9-incli  Guns; 

4  S-iiich  90  cwl.  Guns; 
4T  8  inch  63  cwt.  Guns; 

27  8- inch  55  cwt.  Guns; 
1  8- inch  57  cwt.  Gun; 

4  64-pounders,  of  106  cwt.; 
225  .32- pounders,  of  61  cwt.; 
173  32- pounders,  of  57  cwt.; 
44  32-pounders,  of  51  cwt.; 

28  .32-pounders,  of  46  cwt.; 
82  32-ponnders,  of  33  cwt.; 

34  32-pounders,  of  33  cwt. ; 
44  32-pounders,  of  27  cwt.; 

1  Boat  and  Field  Howitzer,  1,200  lbs.; 

2  Boat  and  Field  Howitzers,  250  lbs.; 

Amounting  to    293,346  91 
235  61  cwt.  Guns,  old  style; 
50  70  cwt.  Guns,  old  style; 
44  40  cwt.  Shubrick  Guns; 
63  42-pounder  27  cwt.  Carronades; 

35  32-pounder  32  cwt.  Carronades; 

Amounting  to    160,243  20 
34  Breechings,  fitted  for  10-inch  Guns; 
42  Breechings,  fitted  for  8  inch  Guns; 
46  Breechings,  fitted  for  32  pounders; 
488^  fathoms  Breeching  Stuff; 

Amounting  to    14^404  96 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  33 

1  11 -inch  Carriage  complete; 

1  10- inch  Carriage,  complete; 
31  9-inch  Carriages,  complete; 
60  8-inch  Carriages,  complete; 

4  64-pounder  Carriages,  complete; 
138  32-poundor  Carriages,  complete; 

1  24-pounder  Howitzer  Carriage,  complete; 

3  12-ponnder  Howitzers,  complete; 

1  12poander  Field  Howitzer,  complete; 

Amounting  to    32,140  00 
34  3-inch  Gnn  Tackle,  fitted; 

24  2i-incli  Gun  Tackle,  fitted; 
1(35  2i-inch  Gun  Tackle,  fitted; 

338  fathoms  Gun  Tackle  Cordage,  2^  inch; 
300  fathoms  Gun  Tackle  Cordage,  3|  inch; 
450  fathoms  Gun  Tackle  Cordage,  3-inch; 

80  fathoms  Gun  Tackle  Cordage,  2|-inch; 
340  fathoms  Gun  Tackle  Cordage,  2^-inch; 
100  fathoms  Gun  Tackle  Cordage,  2-inch; 

Amounting  to     1,875  66 
130  ll-inch  Gun  Tackle  Blocks,  double; 
715  10-inch  Gun  Tackle  Blocks,  double; 
165  S-inch  Gun  Tackle  Blocks,  double; 
109  11-inch  Gun  Tackle  Blocks,  single; 
504  lO-inch  Gun  Tackle  Blocks,  single; 
132  8-inch  Gun  Tackle  Blocks,  single; 

Amounting  to     6,542  68 

15  9-inch  Rammers,  fitted; 

2  10-inch  Rammers,  fitted; 

25  8-inch  Rammers,  fitted; 
22  Oi-inch  Rammers,  fitted; 

6  8-inch  Rammer  Heads; 

3  6^-inch  Rammer  Heads; 
64  Rammer  Staves; 

Amounting  to     149  50 
9  11-incli  Sponges,  fitted; 
74  9-inch  Sponges,  fitted; 

0  10-inch  Sponges,  fitted; 
45  S-inch  Sponges,  fitted; 

1  10-inch  Sponge  Head; 
22  8-inch  Sponge  Heads; 

122  6|-inch  Sponge  Heads; 

Amounting  to     1,206  43 
Worms  and  Ladles,      ....  y'28  19 

154,605  I'ercussion  Caps  for  small  arms; 
45,490  Musket  Ball  Cartridges; 
4;3bO  Musket  Blank  Cunndges; 
tfW 


34  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

37,680  Carbine  Ball  Cartridges; 

5,000  Cartridges,  Buck  and  Ball; 
31,046  (Jartridges,  Pistol  Ball; 
878  5"  Fuses  for  large  Shell; 
1,366  10"  Fuses  for  large  Shell; 
1,462  15"  Fuses  for  large  Shell; 
54  Fuses  for  Howitzers; 
301  11-inch  Stands,  Grape; 
693  Assorted  Stands.  Grape; 

983  Copper  Tanks,  200  lbs.,  150  lbs.,  100  lbs.  and  50  lbs.; 

Amounting  to     17,825  96 
282,149  lbs.  Cannon  Powder; 
10,167  lbs.  ^lusket  I^owder; 
250  lbs.  Rifle  Powder; 

Amounting  to     51,525  85 
20,000  Sharpe's  Cartridges; 
19,246  Balls  and  Cartridges  for  Pistols; 

Amounting  to    579  88 
40,913  Primers  for  Cannon; 

1,703  Spur  Tubes; 
10,830  Friction  Primers; 

Amounting  to     1,078  19 
779  Shells,  in  boxes,  complete,  11 -inch; 
237  Shells,  bouched,  in  boxes,  11-inch; 
500  Shells,  bouched,  in  boxes,  11-inch; 
103  Shells,  in  boxes,  but  not  loaded,  10  inch; 
850  Shells,  in  boxes,  bouched,  10-inch; 
1,708  Shells,  in  boxes  and  complete,  9-inch; 
4,692  Shells,  bouched,  in  boxes,  9-inch; 
3,100  Shells,  bouched  and  saboted,  9-inch; 

678  Shells,  in  boxes  and  complete,  8-inch; 
1,015  Shells,  bouched,  in  boxes,  8-inch; 
3,565  Shells,  bouched  and  saboted,  8-inch; 

76  Sitclls,  in  boxes  and  complete,  32-pounder; 
31  vShells,  bouched,  32-pounder; 
1,930'  Concentric  Shells; 

Amounting  to     56,039  65 
1,179  Shot,  64-pounder; 
89,774  Shot,::52-pounder; 

4  Iron  Training  Axles,  etc.; 

Amounting  to     87,897  06 
Ammunition  Chests,  Spare  Article  Boxes,  Fuso 

J'ixtractors,  Plugs,  Packages,  Paper,  Fuses, 
Fuses,  Reamers,  (fcc.  6cc^.       -  -  922  32 

36,170  Percussion  Caps,  Colt's; 
2,263  Old  Musket  Balls; 
2,096  Old  Carbine  Balls, 


[Doo.  No.  40.]  35 

200  Brass  Screws  for  Deck  Circles; 

1  Set  Deck  Circles; 
4  Pivot  Sockets; 

4  Covers  for  Pivot  Sockets; 
T  8-inch  Canisters; 
9,000  Ball  Cartridges  for  finch  Rifles; 
14  Packing  Boxes; 

2  Tenon  Saws; 

8  Entrenching  Shells; 
404  Shell  Bags; 

6  Cast  Steel  Rakes; 

6  Weeding  Hoes; 

6  Sail  Makers'  Palms; 
411  Battle  Axes; 

Amounting  to     1,179  60 

88  Ball  Moulds; 
188  Cartridge  Boxes; 
209  Waist  Belts; 

55  Cone  Picks; 

201  Cones; 

283  Screw  Drivers  and  Cone  Keys; 

50  Wiper  Rods; 
652  Wipers; 

13  Battle  Axe  Frogs; 

90  Musket  Bayonets; 
279  Scabbards; 

12  Ball  Moulds; 

58  Ball  Screws; 

63  Upper,  63  Lower  and  63  Middle  Bands; 
254  Cartridge  Boxes; 

12  Breech  Screws; 

6  Cartridge  Formers; 

920  Cones  and  39  Guard  Screws; 

26  Hammers; 

15  Locks; 
100  Lock  Screws; 
1,309  Screw  Drivers  and  Cone  Keys; 

34  Side  Screws; 
490  Wipers; 

89  Band,  104  Main,  94  Sear  Springs; 

4  Tang  Screws; 
17  Triggers; 

120  Hand  Vices; 

5  Wire  and  Tumbler  Punches; 
1,645  Worms  and  Scrapers; 

7  Ball  Moulds; 

2  Cartridge  Formers; 


3G  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

563  Cones; 

390  Frogs; 

781  ^crew  Drivers  and  Cone  Keys; 

Amounting  to     17,343  44 

2,111  Pikes; 

362  Cones; 

396  Flasks; 

2S  Spring  Vices; 

448  Ballet  Moulds; 

431  Cone  Wrenches; 

31  Bolts; 

39  Main  Springs; 

41  Sear  Springs; 

30  Hammers; 

31  Hands; 
27  Triggers; 

100  Block  Screws; 

21  Key  Screws; 
440  Holsters; 
369  Sword  Scabbards; 

2  Knife  Bayonets; 
454  lbs.  Cut  Nails; 

1  Hand  Bellows; 
25  Tin  Cases  for  Cartridge  Boxes; 
1  Main  Spring,  Sharp's; 
1  Sear  Spring,  Sharp's; 
1  Bridle; 

Sharp's  Rifle; 

3  Musket  Breeches; 

10  Cases  for  Sharp's  Rifle  Cartridges; 

7  Cod  Lines; 

500  [ron  Bucket  Hooks; 

19  liOgger  Heads; 

31   lbs.  Sperm  Candles; 
360  Revolver  Carhine  Boxes; 

1  Sample  Guard  for  Boarding  Pike; 
6  Rough  Boxes; 

Amounting  to     1,236  20 

195  Brass  Aprons  for  Locks; 

218  Brass  Aprons  for  Breech  Sights; 

202  Brass  Aprons  f(ir  Reinforce  Sightsj 

5  Arm  Chests; 

2  13eds  for  Trnck  Carriages; 

8  Blank  Books; 

2  Pivot  Bolts  for  Heavy  Pivot  Carriages; 
14  Pivot  Bolts  for  Slides  for  Light  Guns; 
60  Boring  Bills  for  Cannon; 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  37 

6  Boring  Bitts  for  Howitzers; 

14  Division  Boxes; 
253  Passing  Boxes; 

53  Primer  Boxes; 
147  Fore  Buckets; 
35  Ihs.  Camphor; 
20,3Sl  Empty  Cartridge  Bags; 

3,122  Yards  White  Cartridge  Stuff; 
2,074ir  Yards  Bhie  Cartridge  Stuff; 
2,404  Yards  Red  Cartridge  Stuff; 

26  Reams  Cartridge  paper; 

10  Copper  Charges; 

9  Compressors  for  Gun  Carriages; 
12  Spring  Eprouvettes; 
14|-  lbs.  Sewing  Twine; 
12  Cans  Prussian  Blue; 

4  Tin  Cans; 

1   Can  Spirits  Wine; 
37  Gallons  Spirits  Turpentine; 
408  lbs.  Red  Paint; 
55  lbs.  Black  Paint; 
1^  Gallon  Linseed  Oil; 

11  Gallons  Fish  Oil; 
25  Gallons  Litharge; 
33  Gallons  Sperm  Oil; 

6  Corn  Brooms; 
434  lbs.  Putty; 

1  Paint  Mill; 

4  Gun  Covers; 
126  Gun  Caps; 

Amounting  to     12,647  GO 

2  Dismounting  Apparatus; 

15  Dividers; 

10  Elevators  for  supplying  powder; 

371  Blue  Lights; 

417  Port- fires; 

298  Rockets;  ♦ 

27  Powder  Flasks; 

3  Cups; 

2  Flash  Pans; 
68  Fuse  Prickers; 
18  Co])per  Funnels; 
62  Gauges; 

Shot  and  Shell; 
18  Thick  Glass  Plates; 
30  Shot  Gromniets; 

7  FusQ  Cutlers; 


38  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

8  Shot  Tongs; 
50  Rocket  Staves; 
1,29S  Tin  Boxes; 

3S9  Wood  Boxes; 
1.36  Kegs; 
.32  Sides  Military  BulT  l.cather; 

11  Sides  Hose  Leather; 

16  Sides  Bellows  I^eather; 

19  Sides  Harness  Leatllfer; 
14  Sides  Bridle  Leather; 

1  Side  Spanish  Sole  liCather; 
6  Sides  Bag  Leather; 

G  Rnckskins; 

12  Sheepsknis; 

2  Shoe  Rubbers; 
6  Shoe  Knives; 

9  Saddlers'  Hammers; 
138  Pounds  Beeswax; 

5  Sheep  Shears; 
24  Breeching  Caps; 
16  Rammer  Covers; 
84  Fathoms  Tarred  Marline; 
12  Drawer  Locks; 
9  Claw  Hammers; 
102  Pounds  Tallow; 
53  Brass  Pad  Locks; 

Amounting  to    3,102  37 

3  Haversacks; 

3  Gallons  Lacquer; 
3  Ladles; 
188  Laviards; 
64  Bottle  Lanterns; 
3  Dark  Lanterns; 
22  jMuzzle  Lashings; 
33  Pounds  Pulverized  Black  Lead; 
26  Ijinch  Pins; 
•   316  Cannon  Locks; 

8  Boat  and  Field  Howitzer  Locks; 
689  Lock  Strings; 
287  Screws  and  Nuts; 
18  Copper  Adzes; 

17  Dusting  Brushes; 
28  Paint  Brushes; 
46  Dresses; 

20  Formers; 

8  Copper  Funnels,  large; 
8  Copper  Funncls;  small; 


[Doo.  No.  40.]  39 

1  Knife; 

1  Lamp  Feeder; 

3  Lanterns; 

lOS  Powder  Measures; 

4  Scissors; 

3  Scoops; 

18  Magazine  Shoes; 

14  Screens; 

28  Tank  Screws; 

1  Vice; 

2  Powder  Scales ; 
168  I\mnds  Houseline; 
404  Pounds  6  Thread  Stuff; 

18  Sail  Needles; 

685  Pounds  9  Thread  Stuff; 
6^  Pounds  21  Thread  Stuff; 

68  Yards  Green  Baize; 
62  Toggles; 

Aamounting  to     2,835  23 
263  Pounds  Match  Rope; 
518  ^latch  Staves; 
475  Yards  Mouslin; 

69  Muzzle  Bags; 

1  Pin  for  Shackles; 
77  Port- fire  Staves; 

11  Priming  Wires  for  Ships'  Guns; 

4  Priming  Wires  for  Howitzers; 

7  Service  Bolts  for  Pivot  Guns; 

2  Oi'dinurj'^  Quoins; 
64  Choking  CAuoins; 

9  Rattles  for  Boarders; 
634  Sabots; 

4  Compressors  and  Elevators  for  Pivot  Guns; 

19  Compressors  and  Elevators  for  Boat  Guns; 

12  Compressors  and  Elevators  for  Howitzers; 

5  Screw  Plates  and  Taps,  Fuse; 
414  Selvidgc  Sliearcrs; 

1  Passing  Box  Former; 
42  Gnn  Scrapers; 

8  Shackle  Punches; 

91  Spare  Elevating  Screws; 
1    Screw  Cutter; 

25   Elevating  Screw  Handles; 
700  Shell  Straps; 

62  Hooks,  \I  Inch  Thimbles; 

74  Hooks,  X  Inch  Thimbles; 
218  Hooks,  8  Inch  Tlumbles; 


40  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

12  ramel  Hair  Brushes; 

9  Signal  Light  Dischargesj 
984  Hreerhiiig  Castings; 

1   Fire  Tub; 
41    Lock  Blanks; 
12  Targets; 

4  Jk;uss  Covers  for  Pivots; 

4  Weights; 

29  Inch-sight  Bars; 
333  Yards  Flax  Canvas,  Nos.  4  and  5; 

1  Plate  for  Bed  Elevating  Screws; 

'  Amounting  to     5,141  83 

261  Breech  Sights; 
284  Reinforce  Sights; 
23  Howitzer  Sights; 

2  Trunnion  Sights  for  Pivot  Guns; 
102  Sight  Thumb  Screws; 

1   Chain  Gun  Slitig; 

7  Pounds  Shoe  Thread; 
33  Pounds  Thrums; 
116  Thumb  Stalls; 
18  9-inch  Tompions  for  Calibres; 
33  8-inch  Tompions  for  Calibres; 

6  Howitzer  Tompions  for  Calibres; 

5  Trail  Ropes  lor  Howitzers; 
I  Trans])orling  Truck; 

214  Spare  Trucks; 

10  Division  Tubs; 

4  Vent  Drills; 

11  A^ent  launches; 
6,328  Selvage  Wads; 

859  Junk  Wads; 

10?,  Pounds  Worm  Wick; 

47  Fuse  Wrenches; 

4]  Pounds  Worsted  Yarn; 

9  Single  Sticks; 

4,700  Copper  Tacks; 

5  Sight  Bars; 

1   ]*ound  Steel  Tacks; 
102  Awls  and  Handles; 
9  Scare  hi  MS ; 

3  Bolts  Haven  Duck; 

1   B<»lt  Cotton  Canvas; 
5,400  Iron  Tacks; 
11  Wood  Axes; 
78  Water  Cap  Wrenches; 
10  Mallets  for  Uuwitzers) 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  41 

7  Gauges  for  Howitzers; 
7  Loop  Pins  for  Howitzers; 

2  Bars  for  Howitzers; 

70  Tin  Canteens  for  expeditions; 
60  Haversacks  for  expeditions; 

Amounting  to    3,949  70 
6  Division  Buckets; 

3  Boat  Boxes; 

2  Chamber  Gauges; 

2  Brass  Train  Bolts; 

2  Brass  Desks; 

2  .lack  Screws; 

12  Life  Buoy  Plates; 

13  Drum  Cords; 

84,24(3  Feet  board  measure  Whiteoak; 
2,370  Feet  Elm  Carriage  Timber; 
Gun  Carriage  Timber; 
107,.503  Pounds  Lignum  Vitse; 
4S  Roller  Hand  Spikes; 
12S  Ordinary  Handspikes; 
3  Adjusting  Bars; 
50  Breecliins  Thimbles; 
379  Pounds  f2- thread  Stuff; 
94  Forward  Sight  Screws; 
30  Passing  Box  Hoops; 
104  Pieces  Hickory; 
383  Feet  Poplar; 
425  Feet  White  Pine; 
1,028  Feet  Beech; 

1  Gunn(Ts'  Quadrant; 

2  Copper  Heavers; 

15  Pounds  Woollen  Yarn; 

3  Pendulums; 
2  Gongs; 

4  Iron  Sight  Bars; 

15  Reinforce  Sight  Bars; 
257  Reinforce  Sight  Screws; 
56  Reinforce  Bolts  and  iSuts; 

Amounting  to     10,996  03 
4  Fifes; 
56  Glass  Chimneys; 
80  Vent  Pads; 
9  Powder  Sieves; 
2  Boat  Gun  F'ixtures; 
2  Ring  Ganges; 
276  R.d  Lights; 
276  WhiUi  Litflils) 
69 


42  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

2  Shell  Whips; 
13  Drums; 
1  Brass  Breeching  Casting; 

Amounting  to     153  86 
Libraries,  289  65 


§785,781  35 


WM.  H.  PETERS,  Com'r. 
Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Va.,  Oct.  10, 1861. 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  48 


Miscellarieous  Articles  on  hand  2\st  April,  I  SGI. 


Miscellaneous  Articles   in   the  various  Store 

Houses,  in  part  enumerated  as  being  on 

Jiand  June  30,  1861,  in  paper,  '  75.3,690  83 

To  which   add  expenditures  of  this  class  of 

material  from  21st  April  to  30th  June,  48,.396  51 


And  we  have  as  on  hand  the  21  st  April,  as 

near  as  can  be  now  approximated,  .^802,087  34 


Timber  and  Timber  Materials,  and  Spars,  in 

part  enumerated  as   being  on  hand   June 

3()th,lS61,  694,533  11 

To  which  add  expenditures  of  this  class  of 

material  from  the  21st  April  to  June  30th,  27,187  58 


And  we  have  as  on  hand  the  21st  of  April,  as 
near  as  can  be  now  approximated,  $721,711  69 


A  quantity  of  Rough  Dressed  Stone,  valued  at  9,607  66 

A  quantity  of  Rough  Stone,  2,422  31 

A  quantity  of  Slate,  7,822  17 


$19,852  14 


Medicines  and  Medical  Stores  at  Hospital,  6,000  00 

Medicines,  d:c.  at  Navy  Yard,  675  06 


•36,675  06 


WM.H.  PETERS,  Coinr. 
JS^avy  Yard,  Gosport,  Va.,  Oct.  10,  1861. 


44  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

Boats  in  Boat  Builders'  Department j  April  21,  1S61. 


1  Barge,  old,  - 

1   Cutter,  old, 

I  Launch,  old, 

1   Launch,  old,       - 

1  Cutter,  old, 

1   Barge,  old, 

]    Launch,  old, 

1  Launch,  fild, 

1  Cutter,  old,         - 

1  Cutter,  old, 

1  Cutter,  old, 

1  Cutter,  half  finished,      - 

1  Cutter,  old,         - 

1   Whale  Boat,  old, 

1  Dinghy,  new,     - 

1  Launch,  old, 

1   Cutter,  old, 

1  Cutter,  old, 

1  Cutter,  old, 

1  Whale  Boat,  half  finished, 

1  Dinghy,  new,     - 

1  Launch,  old, 

1  Launch,  old,      - 

1  Cutter,  old, 

1  Cutter,  old, 

1  Cutter  old, 

1  Cutter,  old, 

1  Whale  Boat,  old, 

1  Whale  Boat,  old, 

1  Dinghy,  old, 

1  Floating  Water  Engine  Boat,  old, 

1  Launch,  old, 

1   Cutter,  old, 

1   Whale  Boat,  old, 
1  Dinghy,  old, 
1   Gig,  old, 
1  Gig,  old, 
1  Gig,  old, 
1  Cutter,  old, 


WM.  H.  PETERS,  CVmV, 
Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Fa.,  Oct.  10, 186L 


100  00 

L30  00 

500  00 

400  00 

250  00 

200  00 

500  ,00 

400  00 

200  00 

200  00 

350  00 

200  00 

150  00 

200  00 

150  00 

.350  00 

200  00 

200  00 

150  00 

125  00 

150  (K) 

000  00 

500  00 

300  00 

250  00 

200  00 

200  00 

150  00 

150  00 

SO  00 

300  00 

75  00 

SO  00 

CO  00 

50  00 

r^o  00 

200  00 

150  00 

30  00 

$8,550  00 

[Doc.  No.  40.]  45 


REPORT 

Of  Provisions,  Clothing  and  Small  Stores  that  mere  on  hand 
at  the  Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  on  the  2\st  of  April,  1861,  when 
possession  of  it  was  taken  in  the  name  of  Virginia. 


Provisions: 

36,855  lbs.  Bread,       -            -            -  -  1,474  20 

1,25S|  bbls.  Beef,     -            -            -  -  20,137  20 

8S0|    "      Pork,    .            -            -  -  17,611   10 

73i-    ''      Flour,               ...  476  39 

6,622  lbs.  Rice,         .            .            .  .  298  00 

10,176    '^    Dried  Apples,       ...  686  90 

6,266    ''    Pickles,     -            -            -  -  313  30 

5,253f  ''    Sugar,       .            -            -  .  433  43 

512    'f    Tea,         ....  174  08 

2,878    "    Coffee,      -            -            .  -  489  26 

3,2491  ''    Butter,      -            .            -  .  942  28 

2,011^  *'    Cheese,     ...  -  362  12 

1,777  Gallons  Beans,            -            -  -  302  09 

915^     "        Molasses,         -             -  -  366  10 

1,196.^     "        Vinegar,           -             -  -  179  48 

1,170       "       Whisky,          -            -  -  362  71 

32,800  Pvations  Mixed  Vegetables,      -  -  524  80 

3,889  Bread  Bags,    ....  1,. 594  49 

Clothing: 

457  Pea  Jackets,    ...  -  4,172  41 

2,097  Bhie  Cloth  Round  .rackets,     -  -  13,21110 

1,800  Bhie  Flannel  Jumpers,            -  -  2,304  00 

2,803  Blue  Cloth  Trowsers,             -  -  9,810  50 

1,021   Blue  Satinet  Trowsers,            -  -  2,348  30 

2,822  Canvas  Duck  Trowsers,          -  -  3,099  20 

2,887  Barnslov  Shooting  Frocks,      -  -  3,233  44 

1,108  Blue  Flannel  Over  Shirts,       -  -  1,6 1 7  68 

l,9h2          "               Under  Shirts,    -  -  2,140.56 

1,148          "               Drawers,            -  -  1,193  92 

12,549|  Yards  Blue  Flannel,              -  -  5,019  90 

3,761^      ''      Barnsley  Sheeting,      -  -  2,2'.<4  52 

r),109j      "      Canvas  Duck,              -  -  1,532  85 

3.372|      "      Nankeen,         -             -  -  320  39 

1,605  Pair  Calf  Skin  Shoes,             -  .  2,72b  50 


46  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

1,373    ^'    Kip  Skin       '^      - 
5,081     "    Woollen  Sacks,    - 

249     ^'    Mattresses,  with  covers,  - 
2,354  Blankets, 
1,1(35  Bine  Cloth  Caps, 

872  Black  Silk  Handkerchiefs, 

350  Seamless  Caps, 

37  Gutta  Percha  Jackets, 

45  "  Trowsers, 

38  "  Caps,     - 

46  Extra  Mattress  Covers, 
26  Linen  Trowsers, 

96  Yards  Enamelled  Cloth, 
935  Yards  Burlaps, 

Small  Stores: 

14,433  Pounds  Tobacco, 
6,893       "         Salt  Water  Soap, 

125  "         Beeswax, 
317^     '^         White  Thread, 
239^     "         Black  Thread, 
594  Pieces  Ribbon, 

1,396       "      White  Tape,    - 
454      "      Black  Tape,     - 
108  Spools  Cotton, 
548  Pocket  Handkerchiefs, 
217  Papers  Needles, 
964  Thimbles, 
681  .Tack  Knives,  - 
296  Pairs  Scissors, 
159  Razors,  ... 

137  Razor  Straps, 

37  Shaving  Boxes, 

43  Shaving  Brushes, 
500  Cakes  Shaving  Soap, 
363  Sr-rub  Brushes, 
268  Blacking  Brushing,     - 

14  Dozen  Eagle  Buttons,  large,  - 

126  Dozen  F^agle  Buttons,  medium, 
272  Dozen  Eagle  Buttons,  small, 

3,054  Dozen  D  Eye  Buttons, 

527  Fnie  Combs, 

420  Coarse  Comi3S, 

202  Mess  Kettles, 

165  Mess  Pans, 
2,004  Tin  Pots, 
1,685  Tin  Pans, 


2,059  50 

1,575  U 

1,145  40 

4,307  82 

731  20 

.  872  00 

318  50 

148  00 

112  50 

29  26 

24  84 

17  42 

48  00 

149  60 

3,319  59 

344  65 

35  00 

269  88 

203  57 

374  22 

34  90 

9  08 

4  05 

65  76 

3  26 

9  64 

156  63 

44  40 

36  57 

19  18 

9  62 

6  45 

15  00 

61  71 

42  88 

3  92 

34  02 

43  52 

30  54 

79  05 

88  20 

202  00 

90  75 

180  36 

168  50 

[Doc.  No.  40.]  47 


9o4  Spoons,  .  .  -  - 

3,267  Bottles  Mustard, 
5,568  liottles  Pepper,  .  .  . 

486  Boxes  Blacking, 
2,300  Hands  Grass, 

Miscellaneous,  or  Account  Contingent: 

10,661  f  Pounds  Candles, 
6  Iron  Chests, 
743  Sjnall  Store  Boxes,     - 
9  Sets  Paymasters'  Books  and  Blanks. 


WM.  H.  PETERS,  Com'r. 
Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Oct.  10, 1861. 


57  24 

392  04 

256 

80 

21 

87 

57 

50 

2,772  05 

185 

00 

222  90 

$123,246 

65 

48  [Doc.  Xo.  40.] 


REPORT 
Of  Light  House  Articles  ofi  hand  April  2ist,  1861. 


In  Cape  Henry  L 

ight  House: 

4  100  Gallon  Oil  Butts, 

. 

. 

- 

48  00 

ISO  Gallons  Sperm  Oil, 

. 

. 

. 

270  00 

.3  Mechanical  Lamps,  second  order, 

- 

- 

15  00 

1  Oil  Feeder,       - 

- 

- 

- 

25 

1  Rouge  Box, 

- 

- 

- 

25 

8  Burner  Brushes, 

- 

- 

- 

1  75 

6  Machine  Brushes, 

- 

- 

- 

1  50 

1  Dusting  Brush, 

. 

- 

- 

25 

1  Drill  and  Bit, 

- 

- 

- 

1  00 

1  Buff  Skin, 

. 

- 

. 

1  00 

8  Linen  Towels, 

. 

. 

- 

1  50 

1  Rod  Lamp, 

- 

- 

- 

1  00 

3  Oil  Cans,  small. 

- 

- 

- 

75 

1  Screw  Driver, 

- 

- 

- 

25 

1  Soldering  Iron, 

- 

- 

- 

50 

In  Light  House  Office,  Norfolk: 

2  Carpets,            -             -             -            -            -  5  00 

.3  Desks,               -            -            -            -            -  40  00 

1   Large  Table,    -            -            -            -            -  10  00 

4  Chairs,              .....  4  00 

1  Stool,                .....  50 

2  Presses,             -             -             -             -             -  20  00 

3  Eight  Day  Clocks,  -  -  -  -  36  00 
3  Eii^ht  Day  Clocks,       -            -            -            -  36  00 

5  24  Hour  Clocks,  -  -  -  -  25  00 
1  Copying  Press  and  Stand,  -  -  -  10  00 
1  Water  Cooler  and  Set  Toilet  Articles,  -  10  00 
3  Ink  Stands,      -             .             -             -             .  1  50 

1  Coal  Scuttle  and  Fire  Set,        ...  75 

2  Oleometers,       -             -             -             -             -  10  00 

1  Post  Ollice  Seal,            -             -             -             -  2  50 

2  Rod  Lamps,  ....  -  2  00 
2  Vols,  lire's  Dictionary,  ...  10  00 
1  Worcester's  Dictionary,  -  -  -  6  00 
1  Brant's  Encyclopedia,  -  -  -  4  00 
1  Lot  Li^ht  Uuu^^e  Blank  Books,            -            -  25  00 


[Doo.  No.  40.]  49 

3  Lithograph  Books, 
1   Box  Charts, 

5  Engravings  of  Lenzes,             -            -            -  1  00 

1  8eal  Press,        -             -             -             -             -  3  50 

1  Oil  Stone,          .....  ]0 

1  Moasnring  Line  and  1  Rule,     -            -            -  2  50 

Several  Books  upon  various  subjects,  -            -  5  00 

1  Lot  Stationery,  ctn.      -             -             -             -  2  50 

1  Quafl rant  and  2  Hour  Glasses,              -             -  5  00 

1  Fountain  Lamp  and  Reflector,              -             -  5  00 

5  Flexible  Brushes,          ....  50 

19  Chimney  Brushes,  -  -  -  -  4  50 
10  Paint  Brushes,               -             -             -             .  5  00 

1   Sash  Brush,      .....  25 

23  Whitewash  Brushes,     -             -             -             -  9  50 

34  Scrub  Brushes,              -             .             -             -  4  50 

4  Wolf's  Head  Brushes,  -  -  -  1  00 
28  Burner  Brushes,  .  -  .  .  7  00 
22  Hand  Dusting  Brushes,             ...  5  50 

35  Swcepiprr  Brushes,  -  -  -  -  10  50 
10  Feather  Brushes,  -  -  -  -  2  50 
18  Ship  Scrapers,                ....  9  00 

5  Slates,                .....  ]   50 

24  Dozen  Litjen  Towels,               -            -            -  72  00 
9  Buff  Skins,       .....  9  00 

30  Pairs  Scissors,                .             -             -             -  7  50 

4  Vols.  Patent  Office  Reports, 

20  Quires  Blank  Forms, 
7  Coast  Survey  Keports, 

Letter  Books,  Oflice  Archives,  Correspondence, 
&c.  frrMn  1852  to  1801. 

3  Putty  Knives,                ....  75 

1  Extension  Table,          -             -             -             -  7  50 

12  Letter  Fortfolios,           -             -             -             -  10  00 

5  Bottles  Ink,  -  -  -  -  -  I  00 
9  Large  Blank  Books,  ....  72  00 
5  Boxes  Yellow  Soap,  -  -  -  -  14  48 
3  Medicine  Chests,  -  -  -  -  30  00 
1  Mortise  Lock,                 ....  i  qo 

1  Saw,  1  Hatchet,  1  Shovel,        ...  1  50 

2  Spirit  Levels,  -  -  -  -  5  00 
1  (;tird  Box,  .....  50 
1  Lot  First  Ordrr  Block  Cord,  -  -  -  5  00 
5  Coils  Cotton  Block  Cord,  -  -  -  10  0() 
VJ  Fog  Horns,  .....  50 
1  Cot  Beadstead,  -  -  .  •  5  00 
1  Tup  aud  i>ei  of  Die*,               -           -           -  id  60 

60 


50 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


Articles  in  old  Custom  House: 

1  .Tones'  Fog  Bell, 

1  Jones'  Fog  Bell  (broken,) 
5  100  Gallon  Tin  Oil  Butts, 

11  50  Gallon  Tin  Oil  Ihnis, 

3  30  Gallon  1^in  Oil  Bntts, 

2  40  Gallon  Tin  Oil  Butts, 
1  Cask  Oil,  87  gallons, 

1  Cask  Oil,  IH)  gallons, 

1  Cask  Oil,  79  gallons, 

1  Cask  Oil,  40  gallons, 

1  Barrel  Oil,  28  gallons, 

1  Butt  Oil,  25  gallons, 

1  Bull  Oil,  15  ijallons, 

1  Butt  Oil,  90  gallons, 

1  Butt  Oil,  lOOgMllons, 

1  Biiti  Oil.  10  gallons, 

1  Butt  Oil,  20  gallons, 

1  Buit  Oil,  3  gallons, 

1  Cask  Oil,  05  gallons, 

1  Cask  Oil,  81  gallons, 

1  Cask  Oil,  92  gallons, 

1  Barrel  Oil,  40  gallons, 

1  Hutt  Oil,  20  gallons, 

1  Butt  Oil,  25  gallons, 

1  Butt  Oil,  15  gallons, 

1  Butt  Oil,  1 00^ gallons, 

1  Butt  Oil,  25  aallous, 

1  Biiit  Oil,  20  gallons, 

1  Buit  Oil,  20gallous, 


2,241  Gallons  Oil, 

3  Brass  Hand  Pumps, 

4  Tin  Hand  Pumps,     - 
2,000  Pounds  Y(^ll()\v  Metal, 

1   C/0])per  Chirtiupy, 

5  Iron  Day  Maiks, 
50  Pounils  old  Copper, 

2,000  Pounds  old  Wrought  Iron, 
1   Roiarv  Oil  Pump  and  Hose, 
10  Oil  Cans, 
1  Light  Boat  Wrench, 

6  Large  Oil  Casks, 
3  Small  Oil  Casks, 

1   Boat,  Oars  and  Sail, 
10  Tin  Oil  Carriers, 
1  Chicken  Coop, 


Amounting  to 


600  00 
100  00 
60  00 
82  50 
22  00 
15  00 


50 
50 
00 


3,361 

7 

I 

200  00 
50  00 
25  00 
12  50 
20  00 
30  00 

2  00 
15  00 

6 

1 


00 
50 


60  00 
8  00 
6  00 


[Doc.  No.  40]  51 

7  Tar  Prushes,  .  .  .  , 
1  Lot  BnVlcs,                  .             .             .  , 

600  Pounds  Wrought  Iron  Buoy  Shackles, 

4  Moorina^  Swivels,  600  pounds, 
600  Pounds  Black  Paint, 

18  Sheets  Copper,           .             .             .             . 

12  Sheets  Yellow  Metal, 

1  Saw,               -             -             .             .             , 

20  Pounds  Putty,           .... 

1  Lot  Pinch  Bars  and  Crow  Bars, 

2  Piich  Pots,  ..... 
2  Augers,           ..... 

5  Draw  Buckets,  .... 
600  Yards  Lamp  Wick, 

2  Pair  Scales,  -      *       - 

60  Pounds  Polishing  Rouge, 

40  Pounds  Spanish  Whitnig, 

4  Sets  Measiues,  .... 

12  Gallons  Spirits  Wine,  in  cans, 

9  Cans,  ..... 

1  Tool  Chest  and  Tools, 

2  Axes,  ..... 
1  Hand  Saw,  .... 
1  Rigging  Screw,  .... 
1  Miinkcy  Wrench,      .... 

3  Soldering  Irons,         .... 
1  Parlor  Stove  and  Pipe, 
1  Cooking  Stove,  .... 

240  Dozen  1st,  2d,  3d,  4th,  5th  and  6th  Order  Lamp 
Chimneys,  .... 

8  Dozen  Rod  Lamp  Chimneys, 
360  Dozen  Lamp  Wicks, 

30  Dozen  Costau  Lamp  Chimneys, 
1  Lot  Hoop  Iron,  .... 

1  5th  order  Lenze,  .... 
1  6th  order  Lenze,        .... 

1  Gth  order  Lenze  and  Accessories, 

2  4th  order  White  Flashes  and  Clock  Machine, 
1  2d  order  Lenze  and  Accessories,  complete,  - 

1  4ih  order  Ijenze  and  Accessories,  complete, 

2  Steamers'  Lenzes,  and  Stand, 
1  5th  order  Lenze,  Pedestal,  6cc. 
I   4th  order  Lenze,  Pedesial,  &-C. 
1  5ifi  order  2  Flashes  and  Clock  Machine, 

10  Rod  Lamps,  .... 

9  4th  order  Franklin  Lamps,    - 

3  Moderator  Lamps,     -  -  -  -  3  00 


60 

1 

00 

60  00 

J  20 

00 

30 

00 

20 

16 

7  20 

50 

80 

5 

00 

3  00 

50 

2 

50 

10  00 

3 

00 

24 

00 

4 

00 

5 

00 

3 

60 

2 

25 

30 

00 

1 

50 

1 

00 

7 

00 

1 

00 

1 

50 

4  00 

10  00 

240  00 

8 

00 

10 

80 

30 

00 

4 

00 

600 

00 

300  00 

300 

00 

75 

00 

5,000 

00 

251 » 

00 

120 

00 

35(1 

00 

500 

00 

600 

00 

10  00 

90  00 

52  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

1  1st  order  Lantern,  complete,     -  -  -       4,000  00 

4  Costal)  Limps,  ....  200  00 
3  Hydraulic  Lamps,  -  -  -  -  3  00 
V)  Fodiitiiiii  Lamps  and  Burners,  4th  order,         -  CO  00 

5  Hand  Lonzes,  -  -  -  -  25  00 
1    FoUDtaiu  Lamp,           -             -             -             -  10  00 

1  lirass  Bucket,  -  -  -  -  1  00 
2.')  Hniss  Cocks,                 -            -            -            -  69  00 

2  Oil  Strainers,  -  -  -  -  4  00 
31   Air  Cocks,        -             -            -            -            -  31   00 

1  Old  Brass  Lamp,           -             -             -             -  2  00 

5  Lightiui^  lanterns,        -             -             -             -  1  50 

3  Large  IMnte  Class,  ....  7500 
10  I'lates  Donhle  Thick  Glass,  -  -  -  40  00 
12  Plates  French  Thick  Class,  -  -  -  60  00 
10  Panes  Double  Thick  Class,  9x11,  -  -  3  20 
10  Pai.cs  Glass,  12x14, 

23  Pan»^s  Glass,  10x12, 

50  Panes  Glass,  7x19, 

50  I'anes  Glass,  S.^xO^-, 

50  Panes  (Jlass,  SxlO, 
1-89  Panes  Glass, 

Amounting  to     18  90 

1   Piece  Copper  Lightning  Rod,               -            -  5  00 

1  Shovel,              .....  50 

1  SweRping  Brush,           ....  25 

1    Wolf's  Head  Brush,     ....  25 

1   Globe  Lanl«^rn,               ....  75 

1  Copper  Wire  Lightning  Rod,   -             -             -  15  00 
175  lbs.  Spikes  and  Nuils,               -            -            -  8  75 

2  Lantern  Wrenches,       ....  100  00 

3  Ilausers,  .....  75  00 
1  Lot  old  Blocks  and  Falls,  -  -  -  100  00 
1  Lot  Gunny  Bags,         ....  20  00 

6  Oil  Casks,        .....  3  00 

7  Oil  Breakers,  -  -  -  -  -  3  50 
1  Lot  Cast  Iron,               -          '  -             -             -  2  00 

1  Set  Hand  Kails,  Iron  Stanchions  and  Ladder,  35  00 

2  Old  Wrought  L-on  Water  Tanks,  -  -  lOl)  00 
1  Spade  and  1  Hoe,         -             -             -             -  1  00 

1  Pump  Brake  and  Rod,  -  -  -  1  50 
ti  Pairs  Side  Steps,           -             .             -             -  10  00 

2  Grindstones,  .  -  -  -  .  5  00 
2  Devil's  Claws,              -            .            .            .  2  00 

8  Buoy  Straps  and  Bands,           -             -             -  24  00 

4  Grapnel  Irons,  -  -  -  .  20  00 
2  Composition  Lanterns,             •            -            ^  60  00 


4 

00 

150  00 

10 

00 

3 

25 

1 

50 

[Doo.  No.  40.]  53 

100  lbs.  Copper  and  Brass,        -            -            -  20  00 
20  lbs.  Copper  IS  pikes  and  Bolts, 
1   Lot  of  Chain  and  Rigging, 
4  liantern  Runners'  Chains  for  Light  Boats, 
50  lbs.  OcJvUiTi,              .... 
10  lbs.  Spun  Yarn,       .             .             -             - 

I  Binnacle,  -  -  -  -  -  10  00 
1  Lot  Patterns,  not  valued. 

Sails  belonging  to  Aiv.iic,  North  Wind,  Bucha- 
nan, Craney  Island,  Ship  Shoal,  Cedar  Point 

and  Relief,            ....  750  00 

6  Jugs,            .....  3  00 

1  Lot  Paint  Kegs,       -            -            -            -  2  50 

1  Bung  Borer,             ....  50 

1  Boat,  -  -  -  -  -  20  00 
1  Light  House  Lantern,  Deck,  of  cast  iron, 

^2,000  lbs.            -            -            .            -  100  00 

4  Cast  Iron  Steps,  old,  2S0  lbs.          -            -  4  20 

1,000  U.S.  Wrought  Iron,                -             -             -  10  00 

I  Cast  Iron  VVeiglit,  1,000  lbs.  -  -  5  00 
1  Pie<'e  Chr^in,  130  fathoms,  l.^  in.  16,SS7  lbs. 
1  Pie<'e  Chain,  90  faOionis,  1.^-  in.  11,700  lbs. 
I  Pier-e  Chain,  30  faihouis,  1 1-  in.  2,Sol  lbs. 
1  Piece  Chain,  120  ftthonis,  I  in.  7,(343  Ihs. 
1   PiHceCliain,   20  fathonjs,  If  in.    3,300  lbs. 

1  Piece  Chain,   60  faihonis,    ^  in.     1,S00  lbs. 

Aniounfing  to  2,212  50 
10  Buoy  Chains,  7  fathoms  each,  70  fathoms, 

5,000  lbs.              -             -             -             -  150  00 

2  Pairs  Cant  Hooks,  -  .  -  -  1  50 
1  Lot  Lumber,  «fcc.  -  -  -  -  30  00 
1  Copper  Cutting  Machine,  cast  iron,              -  10  00 

1  Lot  Mast  Hoops,       -            -            -            -  3  00 

2  Sets  Hatch   Covers,               -             -             -  5  00 
1,000  lbs.  Pig  Lead,             ....  70  00 

2  Draw  Buckets,          -             -             -             -  1  00 

3  Stools,  -  -  .  -  .  1  00 
I  Table, 2  00 

10  lbs.  Solder,    -             -             -             -             -  1    00 

11  2d  Class  Iron  Nun  Buoys,  complete,  -  1,815  00 
6  2d  Class  Iron  Can  Buoys,  complete,  -  1,110  00 
3  I  St  Class  Iron  Can  Buoys,  complete,             -  1,0.50  00 

13  Spar  Buoys,                ....  2(J0  00 

3  2d  Class  Iron  Sinkers,            -             .             -  9  00 

1   Isl  Class  Iron  Sinker,           ...  4  00 

1  1st  Class  Iron  Ballast  Ball,                 -             .  2  50 

3  3d  Class  Irou  Ballast  Balls,              -            -  3  00 


54 


[Doo.  No.  40.] 


9  Stnne  Sinkers, 

67  50 

200  lbs.  Wrought  Iron, 

2  <iO 

110  Spar  Buoy  Straps  and  Bands, 

3S.5  00 

3  Anchors, "3,000  lbs. 

4.50  00 

17,3r)r,  lbs.  Chain, 

808  30 

31  lbs.  Chrome  Yellow, 

6  20 

1  Cask  Drip  Oil,  SO  gallons,     - 

60  00 

$29,226  69 

WxM.  H.  PETERS,  Com'r. 
I^avy  Yard,  Gosport,  Oct.  10,  1S61. 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  55 


Recapitulation  of  Paper  B. 


Ordnance  and  Ordnance  Stores,          -            -  785,781   35 
Miscellaneous  Articles  in  the  various  Store  Houses,    802,037  34 

Timber  and  Timber  Materials  and  Spars,        -  721 ,711   69 

Stone  and  Granite,       ....  19,852  14 

Medicines  and  Medical  Stores,            -            -  6,H75  06 

Boats,               .....  8,550  00 

Provisions,      .....  46,727  93 

Clothing,         .....  66,566  42 

Small  Stores  and  Contingent,               -             -  9,952  30 

Articles  in  Light  House  Department,              -  29,226  69 


$2,497,130  92 


56  [Doo.  No.  40.] 


C. 


REPORT  OF  EXPENDITURES  FROM   THE   21ST  APRIL  TO  THE  30TH  OF 

JUNE,  ISOl. 


REPORT 


Of  ExpemJilures  of  Ordnance  and  Ordnance  Stores  from  the 
2\.st  of  April  to  the  30th  June,  1861 ,  inclusive. 


To  Battery  at  Naval  Hospital,  or  Fort  Nelson: 

5  32-pnnnflers,  of  51  cwt., 
2  8-iiich  (iiiiis,  of  55  cwt., 
8  32-|)()iiiu]ers.  of  57  cwt., 

With  their  Carriages,  Shot,  Shell  and  other  , 
Ammunition  and  Fixtures  complete, 

Amounting  to     13;94l  50 

To  Batlery  nt  Craney  Island: 

4  32-pnunders,  of  51  cwt., 
8  32-p"unders,  of  57  cwt., 
10  8  inch  Guns, 

7  0-inch  Guns, 
1  10-incli  Gnn, 

With  their  Carriages  and  other  Equipments 
complete,  and  with  Annnunition, 

Amounting  to     34,061  02 

To  Battery  at  Naval  Magazine,  or  Fort  Norfolk: 

8  9-inch  Guns,  of  91  cwt.. 

With  their  Carriages,  &.c.  &.c.  complete, 

Amounting  to     12,110  82 

To  Battery  at  Boush's  Bluff: 

6  32-pounders,  of  42  cwt.. 

With  their  Carriages,  &c.  (fcc.  complete, 

Amounting  to    3,139  37 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


57 


To  Battery  at  Pinner's  Point: 

7  32-poiinders,  of  57  cwt., 

With  their  Carriages,  &c.  (fcc.  complete, 

Amounting  to 


8,210  04 


To  Battery  at  Pig's  Point: 

4  32-pounders,  of  42  cwt., 
4  8-inch  Guns,  of  55  cwt., 
2  32-pounders,  of  57  cwt., 

With  Carriages  and  other  Fixtures,  &.c,  complete. 

Amounting  to    8,493  05 

To  City  of  Richmond: 

10  9-inch  Guns,  of  91  cwt., 

4  8-inch  Guns,  of  63  cwt., 

42  32-pounders,  of  33  cwt., 

2  32-pounders,  of  27  cwt., 

With  some  Carriages,  Shot,  Shell,  &-c,  (fcc. 

Amounting  to    37,850  09 
6  9-inch  Guns,  of  91  cwt., 
2  32-pounders,  of  57  cwt., 

12  42-pounders,  of  27  cwt., 
6  8-inch  Guns,  of  63  cwt., 

15  32-pounders,  of  61  cwt., 
2  9-incli  Guns,  of  91  cwt., 
2  32-pounders,  oi"  27  cwt., 

13  32-pounders,  of  47  cwt., 
6  9-inch  Guns,  of  91  cwt., 

14  32-pounders,  of  61  cwt.. 

With  Carriages,  &.c.  &c., 

Amounting  to    58,812  94 


To  General  Beauregard: 

32-pounders,  of  27  cwt., 
32-pounder,  of  42  cwt., 
32-pounders,  of  57  cwt., 
32-pounder,  of  42  cwt., 
32-pounders,  of  33  cwt., 
32-])ounders,  of  27  cwt,, 

With  Carriages,  Ammunition,  &c.  (fcc, 

Amounting  to 

To  Captain  R.  G.  Robb,  at  Richmond  or 
Fredericksburg: 

4  32-pounders  of  27  cwt.,  with  their  Carriages, 
d^c.  difC.f  complete,  -  « 

61 


13,678  20 


1,444  59 


58  [Boc.  No.  40.] 

To  Capt.  Pegmm,  at  City  Point  or  Fort  Powhatan: 

6  32-po\mders  of  51  cwt., 

With  their  Carriages,  &c.  &c.,  complete,  4,537  83 

To  Kempsville,  Princess  Anne  County,  Va. 

1  l2-pounder  Brass  Gun, 

2  9-poinider  Brass  Guns, 

With  Field  Carriages,  dec,  complete, 

Amounting  to     1,912  48 

To  Seaboard  and  Roanoke  R.  Road,  Portsmouth: 

1  27  cwt.  32- pounder  Gun,  with  Carriage,  Fixtures 

and  Ammunition,     -  -  -  428  80 

To  Gen.  Beauregard  at  Charleston,  S.  C. 

12  32-pounderGuns,  of  61  cwt.,  -  -  5,738  88 

6  42- pounder  Guns,  of  8,000  lbs.,  -  -  3,360  00 

6  42-pounder  Guns,  of  8,000  1bs.,  -  -  3,360  00 

12  32-pounder  Guns,  of  61  cwt.,  -  -  5,738  88 

To  H.  F.  Ravenell,  South  Carolina: 

3  Old  English  Guns,  10,304  lbs.,     -  -  1,854  75 

To  Savannah: 
10  32-pounders,  of  33  cwt.,  -  -  2,587  20 

To  Pensacola: 
10  42-pounders,  8,000  lbs.,    -  -  -  6,600  00 

To  Captain  Thomas,  Baltimore: 

20  24-pounders,  of  33  cwt., 
20  32-pounders,  of  61  cwt., 

With  Shot,  Shell,  &c.  &c., 

Amounting  to     15,270  20 

To  Captain  Tatnall,  Georgia: 

4  32-pounders,  of  27  cwt.. 

With  Carriages,  (fcc.  <fcc.,  complete,  1,492  18 

To  Commo.  Rosseau,  at  New  Orleans: 

8  8-inch  Guns, 

8  32-pounders,  of  47  cwt., 

2  9-inch  Dalghren  Guns, 

5  32-pounders,  of  47  cwt.,  with  Carriages,  &.c., 

Amounting  to    17,427  55 


[Doc.  Xo.  40. J 


59 


To  R.  D.  Pugh,  Memphis: 

5  32- pounders,  of  47  cwt., 

3  32-poiinders,  of  33  cwt.,  with  Fixtures, 

To  Tennessee: 

9  32-pounders,  of  61  cwt,, 
12  32-pounders,  of  01  cwt., 

11  32-pounders,  of  61  cwt., 

To  Ordnance  Department,  Norfolk: 
Ammunition,  (fcc.  .... 

To  Lieut.  Geo.  T.  Sinclair,  C.  S.  Navy, 
and  by  him  sent  South  for  the  Army: 

8  Sinch  Dalghren  Guns  of  63  cwt.,     - 
1  9  inch  Dalghren  Gun  of  91  cwt., 

6  32  pounders  of  27  cwt., 

12  32  pounders  of  61  cwt., 
6  42-pounders  of  70  cwt.. 

To  various  Points  in  and  about  Norfolk 
and  Portsmouth: 

Ammunition,  (fcc,         .... 

To  Light  Artillery  at  Norfolk  and  Portsmouth: 
Ammunition,  (fcc. 

To  Field  Artillery  Service: 
Ammunition,  &c.,         - 


20 
4 
2 
4 

20 


To  General  Gwynn,  and  taken  to  N.  C: 
32-pounders  of  27  cwt. 


32-pounders  of  27  cwt. 

32-pounders  of  42  cwt. 

24- pounders  of  31  cwt. 

32-pounders  of  61  cwt. 

10  32-pounders  of  57  cwt. 

10  32-pounders  of  46  cwt. 

10  8-inch  Guns  of  63  cwt. 

With  Fixtures,  &.c. 


To  Norfolk  City: 
3  32-pounders;  with  carriages;  &c.; 


4,170  SO 


4,304  16 

6,738  88 
5,260  64 


1,875  55 


3,951  36 

720  00 

1,270  08 

5,738  88 
3,292  80 


3,404  12 
291  61 
511  42 


Amounting  to    37,189  97 
1,472  72 


60  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

To  order  of  Capt.  S.  Barrori;  per  Lieut.  Sinclair: 
100  S-inch  Shells,  ....  450  OQ 

To  Se well's  Point  Battery: 

6  9-inch  Guns, 

5  32-pounders  of  57  cwt., 

3  32-ponnders  of  27  cwt., 

With  Carriages  and  Fixtures  complete,  and 
with  Ammunition, 

Amounting  to     15,469  75 

To  Battery  at  Lambert's  Point: 

6  32-pounders  of  57  cwt.,  with  their  Carriages, 

<fcc.  &c.,  complete,         -  -  -  4,564  36 

To  General  Gwynn,  and  taken  to  N.  C: 

8  32-pounders  of  61  cwt., 

8  32-pounders  of  4,100  lbs.,  Shubrick  Gun, 

1  42-pounder,  numbered  90, 

17  32-pounders  of  4,100  lbs.,  Shubrick  Gun, 

1  32-pounder,  numbered  6, 

5  32-pounders  of  61  cwt., 

2  32-ponnders  of  4,100  lbs.,  Shubrick  Gun, 

1  32-pounder,  no  mark, 

2  32-pounders  of  4,100  lbs.,  Shubrick  Gun, 

To  same,  and  sent  to  Fort  Macon,  N.  C: 

10  32-pounders  of  4,100  lbs.,  Shubrick  Gun, 

7  24-pounders,  English  Guns, 

4  32-pounders,  51  cwt.  Guns, 
2  32-pounders,  51  cwt.  Guns, 
1   32-pounder,  61  cwt.  Gun, 

1  42-pounder,  27  cwt.  Gun, 

Amounting  to    23,588  36 

To  same,  and  sent  to  North  Carolina: 

8  32-pounders  of  61  cwt., 
20  32-pounders  of  61  cwt., 

6  32-pounders  of  57  cwt., 
10  32-pounders  of  47  cwt., 

1  8-inch  Gun,  6,992  lbs., 

5  8-inch  Guns  of  63  cwt., 
27  32-pounders  of  61  cwt., 

18  32-pounders  of  61  cwt., 

Together  with  Fixtures^  (fcc, 

Amounting  to    44.213  76 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  61 

To  Battery  at  Burwell's  Bay: 

5  32-pounders  of  57  cwt., 
1  9-inch  Gun, 

VV^ith  Carriages  and  other  Equipments  complete, 

Amounting  to    5,719  87 

To  Battery  at  Pagan  Creek: 

4  32-pounders  of  27  cwt., 

With  Carriages  and  other  Equipments  complete, 

Amounting  to     2,537  30 

To  Battery  at  Barrett's  Point: 

4  32-pounders  of  42  cwt.,  with  Carriages,  (fcc, 

complete,  .  .  .  .  2,601  24 

To  City  Point: 

6  32-pounders  of  51  cwt.,  with  Carriages,  &c., 

complete,  .  .  .  .  4,256  52 


$444,244  52 


WM.  H.  PETERS, 

Commissioner  on  the  part  of  Virginia, 


Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Oct.  15, 1861, 


62  [Doc.  No.  40.] 


REPORT 

Of  Expenditures  of  Miscellatieous  Articles  from  the  several  De- 
partments, as  reported  to  me  by  their  respective  heads,  from 
the  2Ut  April  to' 30th  June,  1861. 


Expended  from  the  various  store  houses,  as  reported 

to  me  by  the  naval  storekeeper,         -  -  48,396  51 

Expended  from  the  timber  sheds  and  other  places,  as 
shown  by  the  books  and  other  memoranda  in  pos- 
session of  the  person  having  charge  of  the  timber 
and  timber  materials,  -  -  -  27,178  58 

Medicines  expended  from  the  Naval  Hospital,  as  re- 
ported to  me  by  the  surgeon  in  charge,         -  500  00 

Medicines  expended  from  the  Dispensary  at  Navy 

Yard,  as  reported  to  me  by  the  surgeon  in  charge,  96  00 


.|76,171  09 


WM.  H.  PETERS, 
Commissioner  on  the  part  of  Virginia. 


Navy  Yards  Gosport,  Oct.  15, 1861. 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  63 


REPORT 

Of  Expenditures  of  Boats  from  2\st  April  to  30th  Jmie,  1861. 


Cutter,  old, 
Cutter,  old, 
Dinghy,  new,     - 
Cutter,  old. 
Dinghy,  new,     - 
Cutter,  old, 
Cutter,  old. 
Whale  Boat,  old. 
Dinghy,  old, 
Cutter,  old, 
Dinghy,  old. 
Cutter,  old , 


250 

00 

200  00 

150  00 

200  00 

150 

00 

300 

00 

250 

00 

150 

00 

80 

00 

80 

00 

50 

00 

30 

00 

$1,890 

00 

WM.  H.  PETERS, 

Commissio?ier  on  the  part  of  Virgitiia. 


Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Oct.  15, 1861, 


64  [Doc.  No.  40.] 


REPORT 

«- 

Of  Provisions,  Clothing  and  Small  Stores  expended  from  the 
Navy  Yard  at  Gosport,  Virghiia,  dw'ing  the  time  it  was  binder 
the  control  of  Virginia,  viz:  from  the  2lst  of  April  to  30th  of 
June,  1861. 


Provisions : 

25,887  lbs.  Bread,          ....  1,035  48 

2691  bi,ls.  Beef,           ....  4,312  00 

206|  bbls.  Pork,          .            -            .            .  4,133  70 

28|  bbls.  Flour,         -            -            -            -  186  48 

5,776  lbs.  Rice,             -            -            -            -  259  93 

5,219^  lbs.  Dried  Apples,            .            -            .  352  33 

3,897^  lbs.  Pickles,        .            .            -            .  194  88 

4,58.5  lbs.  Sugar,          ....  378  25 

241  lbs.  Tea,              ....  81  94 

2,310  lbs.  Coffee,          ....  392  70 

1,301  lbs.  Butter,          -            -            -            -  377  29 

1,400  lbs  Cheese,          -             -             -             -  252  01 

1, 7471  Gallons  Beans,                .            .            .  297  03 

26  [^  Gallons  Molasses,             -             -             -  104  50 

21 9|-  Gallons  Vuiegar,              ...  32  97 

545|-  Gallons  Whisky,              -            -            -  169  19 

24  Bread  Bags,         ...             -  9  84 

4,000  Rations  Mixed  Vegetables,          -            -  64  00 

Clothing: 

246  Pea  Jackets,        ...            -  2,245  98 

75  Blue  Cloth  Round  Jackets,          -            -  472  50 

808  Bhie  Flannel  Jnmpers,                -             -  1,034  24 

861   Blue  Cloth  Trowsers,      -             -             -  3,013  50 

84  Blue  Sattinet  Trowsers,               -             -  193  20 

850  Canvas  Dnck  Trowsers,              -             -  950  00 

950  Ikrnsley  Sheeting  Frocks,           -             -  1,064  00 

1,039  Blue  Flannel  Over  Shirts,           -             -  1,516  94 

937  Blue  Flannel  Under  Shirts,         -             -  1,01196 

807  Blue  Flannel  Drawers,                -             -  839  28 

7,727  Yards  Blue  Flannel        -            -            -  3,090  80 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  65 

631  f  Yards  Barnsley  Sheeting,           -            .  385  37 

48S|  Yards  Canvas  Duck,      -            -            .  146  63 

80.^  Yards  Bine  Nankeen,     ...  7  65 

105  Pairs  Calf  Skin  Shoes,                -             .  17y  50 

356  Pairs  Kip  Skin  Shoes,                  -             .  534  qo 

377  Pairs  Woollen  Socks,     -            -            -  116  87 

71  Mattresses,           -            .            .            .  326  60 

626  lilankeis,              -             .             .             .  1  145  58 

542  Blue  Cloth  Caps,             -             .             .  33^  7^ 

497  Black  Silk  Handkerchiefs,          -            -  497  qq 

1  Gutta  Percha  Jacket,       ...  4  00 

Small  Stores: 

2,148  lbs.  Tobacco,      -            .            .            .  494  04 

2,408  lbs.  Salt  Water  Soap,       -            -            .  120  40 

25  lbs.  Beeswax,      -             -             -             .  7  00 

85  lbs.  While  Thread,         -             -             .  29  75 

39  lbs.  Black  Thread,           -             -             .  33  15 

168  Pieces  Ribbon,                 -             -             .  105  84 

640  Pieces  White  Tape,         -             -             .  16  00 

61   Pieces  Black  Tape,          ...  1  20 

48  Spools  Sowing  Cotton,                -            .  1  80 

2bS  Pocket  Handkerchiefs,                 -             .  34  56 

158  Papers  Needles,                -             -             .  2  37 

73  Thimbles,           ....  73 

^nn  t""-^  Knh'^^'       -             -            .            .  58  19 

99  j'airs  Scissors,     -             -             ...  14  85 

15  Razors                  ....  3  45 

lb  Razor  Straps,       -             -             .             .  2  24 

12  Shaving  Boxes,                ...  3  12 

12  Shaving  Brushes,            -            -            .  1  gy 

56  Cakes  Soap          ....  ^  g^ 

194  Scrub  Brushes,                -             .             .  32  98 

66  Blacking  Brushes,           .             .             .  10  56 

102  Dozen  D  Eye  Buttons,                -            .  ]   02 

120  Fine  Combs,        -             -             .             .  18  00 

192  Coarse  Combs,                 -             -             .  40  3^ 

36  Mess  Kettles,      -            -             .            .  3^  00 

44  Mess  Pans,          -             -             .             .  24  20 

946  Tin  Pots,             -             .             .             .  ^514 

1,126  Tin  Pans,            ....  ng  60 

9W   Spoons                  -             -             .             .  55  02 

6i()  Bottles  Mustard,              -             .             .  44  40 

Ib^  Boxes  Blacking,               ...  7  34 

100  Haads  Grass,      •            .            .            .  ^  ^ 


66  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

Contingent  Account: 
476  lbs.  Candles,       -  -  -  -  123  76 

5  Sets  Paymasters'  Books  and  Blanks. 


$33,290  14 


WILLIAM  H.  PETERS, 

Commissioner  on  the  part  of  Virginia. 


Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Oct.  \5,  IS6L 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  67 


24  00 

10  00 

10  00 

5  00 

12  00 

10  00 

2  50 

50 

1  80 

10  00 

30  00 

REPORT 

Of  Expenditures  of  Articles  beloiiginj^  to  the  Light  House  De- 
partment, from  the  2\st  April  to  3Qth  June,  1861. 


To  Head  Quarters,  Norfolk: 

2  Eight  Day  Clocks,    -  -  .  . 

1  Copying  Press  and  Stand,     - 

1  Water  Cooler  and  Toilet  Set, 

1  Cot  Bedstead,  .... 

To  Fort  Nelson  Battery: 

1  Eight  Day  Clock,      -  -  -  . 

2  24-hour  Clocks,         .... 

1  Measuring  Line  and  1  Rule, 

2  Hand  Dusting  Brushes, 
6  Sweeping  Brushes,    -  -  .  . 
1  Cooking  Stove,          .... 

20  Gallons  Oil,  ..... 

To  Lieutenant  Selden,  of  Engineers: 
1  Spirit  Level,  -  -  -  -  2  50 

To  Sewell's  Point  Battery: 

1  Hand  Lenze,  -  .  -  -  5  00 

1  Boat,  Oars  and  Sail,  -  -  -      .      50  00 

3  Hand  Lenzes,  taken  by  sonic  persons  unknown,       15  00 

To  Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Virginia: 

Sails  belonging  to  the  Arctic,  Buchanan,  North 
Wind,  Craney  Island,  Ship  Shoal,  Cedar 
Point  and  Relief,  -  -  -  750  00 

To  State  of  North  Carolina: 

3  Anchors,  3,000  lbs.  -  -  -  450  00 

105  Fathoms  1^  inch  Chain,  13,545  lbs.  -  677  25 

60  Fathoms  1  inch  Chain,  3,821  lbs.     -  -  191  05 

To  Lieutenant  Taylor,  Ordnance  Officer: 
1;000  lbs.  Pig  Lead;  -  -  -  .  70  00 


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To  Harbor  Police  Guard : 

2  Draw  Buckets,  -  -  .  -  1  00 

3  Stools,  -  -  -  -  -  1  00 
1  Table,            -            .            .            .            .  2  00 

To  Norfolk  and  Petersburg  Rail  Road  Company: 
1,063  Gallons  Oil,  -  ....       1,59450 

To  Lieutenant  Milligan,  Signal  Officer: 
9  Gallons  Oil,  -  -  -  -  -  13  50 

To  Capt.  Wm.  Lamb,  Woodis  Rifles: 
3  Gallons  Oil,  .....  4  50 


$3,943  10 


WM.  H.  PETERS, 
Commissioner  on  the  part  of  Virginia, 


Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Oct.  15, 1861. 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  69 


Recapitulation  of  Paper  C. 


Ordnance  and  Ordnance  Stores,          -            -  444,244  .52 
Miscellaneons  articles  from  the  various  departments, 

such  as  Copper,  Iron,  &.c.  &c.         -             -  48,306  51 

Timber  and  Timber  Materials,            -             -  27,178  .58 

Medicines  from  Naval  Hospital,           -             -  500  00 

Medicines  from  Navy  Yard  Dispensary,         -  96  00 

Boats,              .....  1,890  00 

Provisions,      .....  12,634  52 

Clothing,         ....            -  19,093  31 

Small  Stores  and  Contingent,              -            .  1,562  31 

From  Light  House  Department,          -            -  3,943  10 


$559,538  85 


10  [Doc.  No.  40.] 


r>. 


REPORT  OF  ARTICLES  OX  HAND  30TH  JUNE  OR  1ST  JULY.  WHEN  THE 
ESTABLISHMENT  WAS  TURNED  OVER  FOR  THE  USE  OF  THE  CONFE- 
DERATE STATES. 


REPORT 


Of  Ordnance  and  Ordnance  Stores  on  hand  at  the  Gosport  Navy 
Yard  on  the  I  si  of  July,  1861,  ivhen  the  Establishment  was 
turned  over  for  the  use  of  the  Confederate  States. 


1  11-inch  Giin, 

4  6'l-poiin(lers  of  106  cwt., 

3  9-inch  Guns, 
21  8-inch  Guns, 

4  64  pounders  of  106  cwt., 
1  3:^- pounder  of  61  cwt., 

109  32  pounders  of  57  cwt., 

17  32-pounders  of  51  cwt., 

18  32-pounders  of  46  cwt., 
65  32  pounders  of  42  cwt., 

14  32- pounders  of  33  cwt.,  x 

16  32-pounders  of  27  cwt., 
148  32-pounders  of  61  cwt.,  old  style, 
21   32-pounders  of  70  cwt.,  old  style, 
13  42-pounders  of  27  cwt.,  Carronades, 
31  32-pounders  of  32  cwt,,  Carronades, 

Which  with  the  Carriages  on  hand  at  this 
date,  the  Breechings,  Tackles,  Ammuni- 
tion, Shot,  Shell  and  other  fixtures  for  Ord- 
nance, with  the  Materials  on  hand,  and 
available  for  the  purpose  of  making  them, 
are  valued  at    -  -  -  -  341,247  18 

Library,  ....  289  65 


$341,536  83 


WM.  H.PETERS,  Com'r, 
Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Va.,  Oct.  19;  1861, 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


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Articles  in  Naval  Siore  Houses. 


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10,020  lbs. 
8,000  lbs. 
8,000  lbs. 
7,080  lbs. 
7,198  lbs. 
7,829  lbs. 
7,110  lbs. 
7,870  lbs. 
7,000  lbs. 
7,950  lbs. 
7,750  lbs. 
7,055  lbs. 
7,125  lbs. 
7,190  lbs, 
7,100  lbs. 
6,780  lbs, 
6,790  lbs. 
6,985  lbs, 
6,956  lbs. 
6,7.50  lbs. 
6,900  lbs. 
6,8.50  lbs. 
7,960  lbs. 
8,0.50  lbs, 
6.877  lbs 
3,915  lbs, 
4,366  lbs, 
4,170  lbs, 
4,100  lbs 
4,140  lbs, 
4,075  lbs, 
4,050  lbs, 
4,175  lbs 
4,100  lbs 
4,090  lbs 
4,100  lbs, 
3,750  lbs 
3,920  lbs 
3,400  lbs 
3;130  lbs, 


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1,646  lbs. 

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1,648  lbs. 
1,650  lbs. 

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900  lbs. 
400  lbs 
820  lbs 
900  lbs 
926  lbs 
870  lbs 
880  lbs 
960  lbs 

800  lbs 
866  lbs. 
770  lbs 
700  lbs 
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700  lbs 
67.5  lbs. 
100  lbs. 
471  lbs, 
500  lbs. 
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050  lbs, 
340  lbs 
030  lbs, 
830  lbs, 
760  lbs, 
760  lbs 
910  lbs 
907  lbs 
965  lbs 
950  lbs 
930  lbs 

801  lbs, 
825  lbs 
700  lbs 
713  lbs 
790  lbs 
730  lbs 
723  lbs 
700  lbs 
740  lbs 
700  lbs 
726  lbs 
600  lbs 
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690  lbs 


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1,085  lbs. 
890  lbs. 

lbs. 
854  lbs. 
715  lbs. 
650  lbs. 
660  lbs. 
756  lbs. 
760  lbs. 
752  lbs. 
750  lbs. 

lbs. 

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380  lbs. 
475  lbs. 

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345  lbs. 

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276  lbs. 
249  lbs. 
325  lbs. 
248  lbs. 
516  lbs. 
506  lbs. 
510  lbs. 
225  lbs. 
200  lbs. 
260  lbs. 

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185  lbs. 
220  lbs. 
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186  lbs. 
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6,000  lbs. 

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3,060  lbs. 

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990  lbs. 


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lbs. 
201  lbs. 
172  lbs. 
151  lbs. 
150  lbs. 
142  lbs. 

128  lbs. 
124  lbs. 

lbs. 
110  lbs. 
112  lbs. 

lbs. 
108  lbs. 

129  lbs. 
87  lbs. 

53  lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 

56  lbs. 

56  lbs. 

lbs. 

lbs. 

lbs. 

221  lbs. 

133  lbs. 

308  lbs. 

54  lbs. 
183  lbs. 

54  lbs. 
53  lbs. 
36  lbs. 

lbs. 

lbs. 
62  lbs. 
56  lbs. 
20  lbs. 

lbs. 
22  lbs. 
19  lbs. 
15  lbs. 

Amounting  to 
for  harbor 

for  harbor 

for  harbor 


56,002  20 


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1  Long  Shank  Anchor,  only  fit  for  harbor 
purposes,     450  lbs. 

1  Long  Shank  Anchor,  only  fit  for  harbor 

purposes,     600  lbs. 

Amounting  to  1,332  00 
9  Grapnells,  549  lbs.  ...  82  35 

19  Jewsharps,  10,279  lbs.        -  -  -  2,387  06 

5  Chain  Cables,  2^  inches,  150  faths.  each, 

41,357  lbs.  each,  -  -  -  14,474  95 

2  Chain  Cables,  2  inches,    165  faths.  each, 

39,116  lbs.  each,  -  -  5,476  24 

2  Chain  Cables,  2  inches,    150  faths.  each, 

35,560  lbs.  each,  -  -  -  4,978  40 

2  Chain  Cables,  2  inches,    165  faths.  each, 

39,116  lbs.  each,  -  -  -  5,476  24 

2  Chain  Cables,  1  [|  inches,  150  laths,  each, 

34,478  lbs.,       -  -  -  -  9,653  84 

1  Chain  Cable,  Ijf  inches,  165  faths. 

37,925  lbs.  each,  -  -  -  2,654  75 

1  Chain  Cable,  1}^  inches,  150  faths. 

34.478  lbs.  each,  -  -  -  2,413  46 

2  Chain  Cables,  I  If  inches,  165  faths.  each, 

33,239  lbs.  each,  -  -  -  4,653  46 

1  Chain  Cable,  liji  inches,  150  faths. 

30,218  lbs.,    '    -  -  -  2,115  26 

3  Chain  Cables,  1^  inches,  150  faths.  each, 

19,475  lbs.  each, 

2  Chain  Cables,  1,V  inches,  150  faths.  each, 

19.479  lbs.  each,  ... 

Amounting  to  6,817  65 
1  Chain  Cable,  H-  inches,  165  faths. 

34,267  lbs.,        ....  2,39869 

1  Chain  Cable,  li  inches,  120  faths. 

11,446  lbs.,        ...  - 

1  Chain  Cable,  l{-  inches,  120  faths. 

11,446  lbs.,        -  .  .  - 

2  Chain  Cables,  1}  inches,  120  faths.  each, 

11,446  lbs.  each. 

Amounting  to  3,204  88 
2  Chain  Cables,  1-g-  inches,  120  faths.  each, 

8,900  lbs.  each,  -  -  -  1,246  00 

1  Chain  Cable,  If  inch  145  foths.  17,497  lbs.,  1,224  79 

2  ''  lyV    "  120     "         '^/•^^^    "  '^M^  ^^ 
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3.     5,064  lbs., 

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65 

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2,638—22,548  lbs. 

Amounting  to 

1,578  36 

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120 

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7,642  lbs., 

534  94 

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150 

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25,319     " 

7,089  32 

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17,532     '< 

1,227  24 

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135 

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12,870     ^< 

900  90 

Piece  Chain, 

If  inch  60  fathoms,  0,400  lbs., 

658  00 

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nch  45  fathoms,  3,813  lbs., 

266  91 

cc 

U  inch  165  fathoms,  15,738  lbs., 

1,101  66 

Devil's  Claws.' 

Mooring  Swivels, 

309  lbs. 

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630  36 

Hemp  CablCj 

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5.,  9,240  lbs., 

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120 

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8,648    <' 

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17 

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120 

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16,328    « 

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16L 

cc 

120 

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7,680    '( 

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16 

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120 

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12,900    " 

IC 

14 

cc 

120 

cc 

15,210    '' 

(C 

13i 

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120 

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4,862   <' 

cc 

13 

cc 

120 

cc 

4,655    <' 

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12 

cc 

120 

cc 

2,976    '^ 

CI 

10 

cc 

120 

cc 

2,300    <f 

cc 

22 

Ci 

120 

cc 

13,307    « 

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120 

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2,976    " 

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10 

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120 

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2,965    '< 

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9 

cc 

120 

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2,353   " 

8 

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120 

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15,064   <* 

8 

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7 

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120 

cc 

11,275   " 

8 

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6 

cc 

120 

cc 

8,412   " 

2 

Hemp  Mesgr'i 

5  12 

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60 

cc 

3,764   '« 

3 

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13 

cc 

54 

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5,762    " 

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10 

cc 

50 

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3,373    " 

2 

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9 

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40 

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1,510   <^ 

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11 

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57 

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2,866   '< 

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11 

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57 

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1,436   '< 

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10 

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54 

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1,148— 161 ,070  lbs. 

Amounting  to 

22,549  80 

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nch 

— worthless,  except  as  junk, 

cc 

15.1 
14} 

iC 

cc 

cc 

cc 

14 

cc 

cc 

20 

IC 

IC 

21 

cc 

2 

cc 

13 

cc 

16 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


1  Manilla  Cable^  IH  in- — worthless,  except  as  junk, 
1  "  12" 


1  Manilla  Cable, 

2  Manilla  HawserS;  10 

3  '^  9 
3              '^  8 

11               "  7 

1              "  6 

1               "  5 


120  fathoms,  3,561  lbs. 

Amounting  to 
Oinrh,  120  faths.  1,058  lbs., 


391  71 


120     "      4.330 

''  120  "  5,817  '' 
"  120  "  4,706  " 
^'  120  ''  12,781  " 
"  12U  "  858  '' 
"      120     "         637—30,787  lbs. 

3,386 

2,237 

271 

404 


Amounting  to 
Old  Chain,  assorted,  31, 90S  lbs. 

6  :\lanilla  Hawsers,  4  inch,  120  fath.  2,470  lbs., 

7  Manilla  Hawsers,  4^  innh,  120  fath.  3,675  lbs., 
2  Sets  Tanks  for  Ships  of  the  line,  74s,  complete, 

123  each,            ....  33,474 

2  Sets  Tanks  for  Ships  of  the  line,  74s,  incomplete,  29,337 
2  Sets  Tanks  for  1st  Class  Frigates,  complete,  8S 

each,       -----  20,757 

1  Set  Tanks  fir  1st  Class  Frigates,  incomplete,  41,  4,S35 

2  Sets  Tanks  f  )r  1st  Class  Sloops,  complete,  8,786 
1  Set  Tanks  for  1st  Class  Sloops,  incomplete,  4,717 
1  No.  10  from  Brig  Dolphin,                -             -  1,433 

75  Old  Tanks,  assorted,  not  worth  pricing. 

932,360  lbs.  Ballast,  416.1  tons,            -             -  9,323 

614  Bolts  Flax  Canvas,  No.  1,       -             -  8,903 

666  Bolts  Flax  Canvas,  No.  2,      -             -  8,658 

470  Bolts  Flax  Canvas.  No.  3,       -             -  5,875 

220  Bolts  Flax  Canvas,  No.  4,       -             -  2,640 

195  Bolts  Flax  Canvas,  No.  5,      -             -  2,242 

661   Bolts  Flax  Canvas,  No.  6,      -             -  7,436 

134  Bolts  Flax  Canvas,  No.  7,       -             -  1,474 

381   Bolts  Flax  Canvas,  No.  8,      -             -  4,095 

153  Yards  Flax  Canvas,  assorted,              -  45 

55  Bolts  Cotton  Canvas,  No.  1,                -  550 

37  Bolts  Cotton  Canvas,  No.  2,                 -  360 

121   Bolts  Cotton  Canvas,  No.  3,                -  1,149 

98  Bolts  Cotton  Canvas,  No.  4,                -  882 

14  Bolts  Cotton  Canvas,  No.  5,                -  122 

27  Bolts  Cotton  Canvas,  No.  6,                -  209 

1,021  Yards  Cotton  Canvas,  assorted,           -  163 

8  Bolts  Bag  Canvas,       -             -             -  144 

106  Bolts  Cotton  Canvas,               -            -  1,272 

17  Bolts  Russia  Duck,  light,        -            -  170 

8  Bolts  Russia  Duck  Canvas,                  -  112 

102  Yards  Russia  Duck  Canvas,  3  bolts,  42 

23  Bolts  Flax  Coal  Bagging  Canvas;  1,706^  yds.  597 


5< 
76 
70 
25 

90 

81 

98 
54 
40 
60 
44 

60 
00 
00 
00 
00 
50 
25 
00 
75 
90 
00 
75 
50 
00 
50 
50 
36 
00 
00 
00 
00 
00 
2T 


[Doo.  No.  40.] 


T7 


10  FlleSj  14  inches,  flat  bastard, 
72  Files,  1.'^  inches,  flat  bastard, 
231   Files,  12  inches,  flat  bastard, 
237  Files,  11  inches,  flat  and  ronnd  bastard, 
95  Files,  10  inches,  flat  and  round  l)astard, 

Amounting  to 
G2  Files,  0  inches,  flat  and  round  bastard, 
257  Files,  8  inches,  flat  and  round  bastard, 
26  Files,  0  inches,  flat  and  round  bastard, 
12  Files,  10  inches,  cross-cut  saw, 
156  Files,  7  inches,  pit  saw, 
35  Files,  6  inch,  pit  saw, 
76  Files,  6  inch,  cross-cut  saw, 
12  Files,  5  inch,  cross-cut  saw, 


684  Brass  Mortise  Locks,  5;^  inch, 
114  Iron  Rural  Locks,  dead,  6-inch, 

84  Iron  Chest  Locks,  4-inch, 
411    Iron  Rim  Licks,  No.  130, 
450  lbs.  Copper  Cut  l\&ils,  3d, 
834  lbs.  Copper  Cut  Nails,  6d, 
100  lbs.  Copper  Cut  Nails,  5d, 
1,546  lbs.  Copper  Cut  Nails,  20d, 
650  lbs.  Copper  Cut  Nails,  r2d, 
550  lbs.  Copper  Cut  Nails,  lOd, 


Amounting  to 


173  Yards  Black  Cotton  Cambric, 
522  lbs.  Copper  Wire,  assorted, 
580  lbs.  Brass  Wire,  assorted, 
335  lbs.  Iron  Wire,  assorted, 
]2  Rim  Locks,  7  inch,  iron, 
48  Rim  Locks,  6  inch, 
179  Plate  Locks,  9  inch, 
264  Cupboard  Locks,  4  inch, 
96  Cupboard  Locks,  3i  inch, 
12  Closet  Rim  Locks,  4  inch, 
123  Cupboard  Locks,  2^  inch, 
54  Closet  Rim  Locks,  4  inch  brass, 
30  Closet  Rim  Locks,  4  inch,  brass, 
30  Closet  Rim  Locks,  6  inch,  iron, 
36  ('loset  Rim  Locks,  6  inch,  iron, 
318  Pad  Locks,  2^  inch,  iron, 
12  Pad  Locks,  2|  inch,  iron, 
72  Pad  Locks,  2^'  inch,  iron, 
72  Pad  Locks,  2.^  inch,  brass. 
63/100  Iron  Brads,  f  in.di, 
25,000  Iron  Brads,  §  inch; 


309  60 

18  60 

77  10 

4  68 

2  40 

28  08 


22  14 
684  00 
38  00 
28  00 
68  50 


Amounting  to     1 


,239 

00 

10 

38 

250 

56 

220 

40 

33 

50 

4  00 

16 

00 

125 

30 

66 

00 

24 

00 

2  00 

30 

75 

9  00 

5 

00 

5 

00 

6 

00 

53 

ou 

2 

00 

12 

00 

36  00 

12  60 

5  00 


IB 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


6,000 

20,000 

17,000 

13,000 

in 

3} 

3l 

47,000 

2,000 

36,100 

788 

162 

127 

34 

46 

2YI 

107 

11.^ 

1 09 

79 

12 

91 

86 

73 

20 

35 

30 

21 
68 
22 
28 
29 
53 

45 

ISO 

126 

12 

149 

4 

28 

4 

21 


Iron  Brads,  ^  inch,  patent, 

Iron  Tacks,  8  ounce, 

Iron  Tacks,  10  ounce,      -  -  - 

Iron  Tacks,  6  ounce, 

lbs.  Iron  Tacks,  Tinned, 

lbs,  Brass  Escutcheons, 

lbs.  Round  Head  Brass  Tacks,  ^  inch,    - 

lbs.  Round  Head  Brass  Tacks,  ^  inch,    - 

iron  Sprigs,  ^  inch, 

Iron  Tacks,  14  ounce, 

Iron  Tacks,  4  ounce, 

lbs.  Iron  Finishing  Nails,  assorted, 

lbs.  Iron  Closet  Nails,  assorted, 

lbs.  (/opper  Brads,  1  to  1^  inch, 

lbs.  Russia  Iron  Brads,  2  inch, 

lbs.  Iron  Brads,  1  inch, 

lbs.  Iron  Brads,  1^  inch, 

lbs.  Iron  Brads,  2  inch, 

lbs.  Turned  Rivets, 

Gross  ^  inch  Iron  Screws, 

Gross  f  inch  Iron  Screws, 

Gross  -|  inch  Iron  Screws, 

Gross  i  inch,  Iron  Screws, 

Gross  1^  inch  Iron  Screws, 

Gross  1^  inch  Iron  Screws, 

Gross  l|  inch  Iron  Screws, 

Gross  2  inch  Iron  Screws, 

Gross  2^  inch  Iron  Screws,  assorted, 

Amounting  to 
Gross  2}j  inch  Brass  Screws, 
Gross  2  inch  Brass  Screws, 
Gross  1|-  inch  Brass  Screws, 
Gross  1^  inch  Brass  Screws, 
Gross  1  inch  Brass  Screws, 
Gross  I  inch  Brass  Screws, 


Draw  Locks,  2}j  inch,  iron, 
Wardrobe  Locks,  3  inch,  iron, 
Wardrobe  Locks,  3  inch,  brass. 
Cupboard  Locks,  3  inch,  iron, 
Cu])board  Locks,  3  inch,  brass. 
Closet  Locks,  4  inch,  iron. 
Closet  Locks,  6  inch,  brass. 
Mortise  liOcks,     inch,  brass, 
Mortise  Locks,  4  inch,  iron, 
Rim  Locks,  8  inch,  iron, 
Poor  Locks,  No.  40,  iron; 


Amounting  to 


1 

50 

4 

00 

3  40 

2  60 

4  31 

1 

30 

3 

00 

1 

40 

9 

40 

40 

7 

20 

63 

04 

12  96 

63 

50 

8 

50 

11 

50 

5 

37 

21 

40 

2  87 

535  00 


386  76 

22  50 

90  00 

75  60 

3  00 

74  50 

66 

7  00 

4  00 

5  25 

6  00 

3  00 

[Doc.  No.  40.]  79 

252  White  Pearl  Draw  Knobs,  ^  inch, 
204  Porcelain  Door  Knobs,  No.  200, 
48  Porcelain  Door  Knobs,  No.  100, 
144  Porcelain  Door  Knobs,  2  inch,     - 
221  Mineral  Knobs  for  Rim  liocks,  2|  to  2|  inch, 

72  Mineral  Knobs  for  Mortise  Locks,  1^  to  2  inch, 
193  Porcelain  Knobs  for  doors,  1|-  to  l}j  inch, 
438  White  i^earl  Knobs  for  .Mortise  Locks,  l.i-  to 
2|inch,  .... 

12  Argilla  Door  Knobs,  1  to  1|  inch, 
2SS  Porcelain  Draw  Knobs,  1^  inch, 
102  Brass  Door  Knobs, 
54  W'ardrobe  Hooks, 
12  Iron  Till  Locks,  No.  49, 
144  Brass  Barrel  Bolts,  4  to  9  inches, 
12  Brass  Socket  Bolts, 
88  Brass  Coat  and  Hat  Hooks, 
936  Brass  Bnttons  on  ))lates, 
120  Brass  Table  Catches, 
180  Brass  Escutcheons,  assorted, 
1,560  lbs.  Flax  Sewing  Twine,  assorted, 
336  lbs.  Seine  Twine,  assorted, 
236  lbs.  Flax  Whipping  Twine,  assorted, 
2,349.\  lbs.  Cotton  Packing,  assorted, 
239|  lbs.  Pump  Leather,  11  Sides, 
1,449  lbs.  Rigging  licather, 

632  lbs.  Gum  Copal, 
1,992  lbs.  Spun  Cotton  Bat,     - 
310  lbs.  Gum  Ring  Packing, 
1,336  lbs.  Slvet  Gum  Parking, 
1  Small  Hand  Turning  Lathe, 
99  Coat  and  Hat  Brass  Hooks,  Porcelain  Knobs, 
48,000  16  ounce  Tacks,  iron,    - 
24,000  6  ounce  Tacks,  inni, 
38,000  I  inch  Tacks,  iron. 

Amounting  to 
72  Brass  Fiscutcheon  Rim  Plates,  No.  4,    - 
390  Brass  Hooks  and  Eyes, 

72  Brass  Buttons  on  Plates, 
146  Pjrass  U,!iadrant  Catches, 
24  Pair  White  Metal  Round  Escutcheons, 
Kvi  Brass  Cupboard  Catciies, 
102  Brass  lihnd  Catches,      - 
576  Brass  Cupboard  Hooks, 
144  Brass  Shuitcr  Kuubs,     - 

12  Sash  Pnlleys, 
830  Brass  Screw  Rings,        -  -  •  24  90 


12  60 

10  20 

2  00 

7  20 

20  26 

6  60 

9  65 

219  00 

3  &) 

14  40 

12  24 

8  f)4 

3  60 

57  60 

3  60 

14  08 

28  08 

24  00 

90 

468  00 

100  80 

70  80 

352  42 

125  91 

857  15 

158  00 

219  12 

133  30 

574  48 

25  00 

15  84 

22  00 

72 

39  00 

2 

16 

36  50 

48 

32 

40 

10 

20 

17 

28 

11 

52 

3 

00 

80  [Doo.  No.  40.] 

603  Brass  Flush  Rings,        -            -            -  48  24 

48;000  Iron  Tacks,  8  ounce,      ...  9  60 

63  lbs.  .Scupper  Nails,          -             -             -  13  23 

163  lbs.  Clout  Nails,              -             -             -  16  30 
12  Pair  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  2x1. }■  inches, 
06  Pair  F3rass  Butt  Hinges,  H  inches, 
1.36  I'air  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  l|-  inches, 
108  Pair  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  2  inches, 

Amounting  to     74  40 

1.56  Pair  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  2%  inches,        -  46  80 

24  Pair  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  1 1x2}^  inches,  4  80 

24  Pair  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  3x2  inches,  14  40 

72  Pair  lirass  Butt  Hinges,  3|x2.V  inches,  50  40 

144  l>air  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  3.Vx2.J  inches,  108  00 

60  Pair  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  4*inches,          -  60  00 

204  Pair  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  4x3  inches,      -  204  00 

216  Pair  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  4x|  inches,      -  216  00 

68  Pair  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  4.V  inches,         -  74  80 

27  Pair  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  4x3  inches,      -  29  70 

4  Pair  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  2.U2  inches,    -  1  20 

6  Pair  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  3.^x2.V  inches,  4  50 

9  Pair  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  3.Vx3  inches,  6  75 

2  Pair  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  2.\xl|  inches,  60 

14  Pair  Brass  i^ritt  Hinges,  3x2|  inches,  8  40 

4  Pair  Brass  i^uft  Hinges,  2x1^-  inches,  80 

11  Pair  Brass  iiutt  Hinges,  l^xH  inches,  2  20 

2  Pair  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  3xl.V  inches,  1  20 

17  Pair  Brass  Butt  Hinges,  3^-  inches,  12  75 

4  Gross  Br.iss  (Curtain  Kings,         -             -  11  52 

79  Pair  Port  Lights,  7  inches,         -             -  98  75 

19  Pair  Port  Lights,  6  inches,  -  -  23  75 
51  Round  Deck  Lights,  5  inches,  -  -  51  00 
10  Magazine  Light's,  12  inches,  -  -  50  00 
IC)  Magazine  Lights,  10  inches,  -  -  SO  00 
21  Gallons  SpirUs  Wine,  -  -  12  60 
27  Binnacle  Bowls,  glass,                 -             -  27  00 

6  Gallons  .Japan  Varnish,                 -             -  6  00 

1  Gallon  Tar  Oil,                 -                         -  55 
30  Water  Closet  Bowls,       .             -             -  60  00 

46,500  Composition  Clinch  Rings,         -             -  930  00 

2  Iron  .Spades,       -             -             -             -  2  00 

20  Large  Coal  Shovels,  -  -  -  25  00 
40  Ibs.^Matiess  Twine,  ...  12  00 
27  lbs.  Sewing  Thread,  ...  2160 
42  Mill  Saw  Files,  12  inches,        -            -  16  80 

2.)0  lbs.  Iron  Spikes,  assorted,          -             -  12  50 

40  Composition  Puuip  Boxes,  667  lbs.        -  200  10 


[Doc.  No   40.]  81 

12  Composition  Pnnip  Chamljers,  9  in.  2,656  lbs. 

2  Composition  Pump  Chambers,  5  in.  48  lbs. 
1  Grindstone,         .  .  .  . 
1^  Sets  Life  Buoys, 

20()''Glass  Lights,  SxlO  inches, 
67  lbs.  Gum  Shellac, 
9  lbs.  Chinese  Vermilion, 
120  lbs.  Chrome  Green, 

3  Running  Lights,  and  Wheel  House  Lantern, 

red,  white  and  blue,     - 
97  lbs,  Tallf.w, 
232  Air  Port  Pkinges,  with  Glasses, 
7  Stove  Brushes, 
36  Feet  Sncticm  Hnse, 
120  lbs.  Lacing  Leather, 
A(J  Dozen  Biilkliead  Bolts, 
11   Boxes  XXX  Till, 

6  Composiiiun  Pump  Chambers,  and  12  Boxes, 
77  lbs.  Brass  Solder, 
126  Hatchets,  .... 

20,00(1  \)v.Qk  Pings,        .... 
277  Ihs.  Glue,  .... 

46  Corrip<<sitinn  Air  P(irt  Pots, 
24  Air  Port  Pluimes, 
152  lbs.  Piunire  Stone, 
105  lbs.  Packing  Yarn, 
2'.iS  Composition  Spikes, 
103  Brass  Bulk  Head  Rolts, 
51  Brass  Honks  au'l  lives  for  Doors, 
5  Hoes  wiilioni  handlns, 
500  lbs.  Wrought  Iron  Nails, 
579  lbs.  Cut  Nails,  assorted, 
500  lbs.  Iron  Finishing  Nails, 
100  lbs.  Iron  B.-at  Nads, 
500  lbs.  Wrought  Iron  Spikes,  assorted, 
1(10  lbs.  Cut  Iron  Spikes,  assorted, 
457  lbs.  Boiler  Rivets, 
1,241   lbs.  Wrought  Iron  Spikes, 
3,192  lbs.  Wrought  Iron  Spikes, 

3^  (iallons  Zinc  Drier, 
2,7HO  lbs.  lead  Pipe, 
Bat  Cotton, 
Flax  Sewing  Twine, 
Cast  Steel, 
Blister  Steel, 
German  Steel, 
29  Reams  Sheathing  Paper,  -  -  232  00 

67 


602 

lbs 

603 

lbs 

608  lbs 

1,215 

lbs 

37 

lbs 

796 

80 

14  40 

6  00 

105 

00 

20 

00 

10 

05 

9 

00 

24  00 

90  00 

11 

64 

1,508  00 

1 

05 

61 

20 

24  00 

192 

00 

176 

00 

75 

60 

19  50 

63 

00 

25 

00 

69 

25 

411 

45 

156 

00 

7 

60 

15 

75 

23 

80 

41 

20 

1 

02 

2 

50 

25 

00 

23 

16 

40 

00 

8  00 

25 

00 

4  00 

22 

85 

62  05 

159 

60 

3 

75 

194 

60 

60  20 

1.50 

90 

97 

28 

85 

05 

2  22 

82 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


Too  lbs.  Coopers'  Rivets,  assorted, 
700  lbs.  4cl  Iron  Cut  Nails, 
800  lbs.  6d  In. 11  Brads, 

42  Corn  Brooms,     - 

36  Hickory  Brooms, 
724  lbs.  Cf.iton  Twine, 

52  Boxes  Class  Lights, 

bO  Boxes  Glass  Lights, 

40  Boxes  Glass  Lights, 
1,600  lbs.  Iron  Wroiigfit  Nails, 
600  lbs.  Iron  Cut  Nails, 
800  lbs.  Iron  Brads, 
400  lbs.  Iron  Cut  Spiles, 
600  lbs.  Iron  Wrought  Spikes, 

55  Air  Port  Plunges,  with  Glasses, 
200  lbs.  White  Zinc  Paint, 
1,650  Locust  Tree  Nails,  24  inch  each, 

3  Treble  Blocks,  22  inch, 
12  Treble  Blocks,  20  inch, 

1  Treble  Block,  IS  inch, 
9  Treble  Blocks,  16  inch, 
6  Treble  Blocks,  15  inch, 

2  Treble  Blocks,  14  inch, 

36  Treble  Blocks,  13  inch, 

16  Treble  Blocks,  12  inch, 

17  Treble  Blocks,  10  inch, 
10  Treble  Blocks,  9  inch, 

10  Treble  Blocks,  8  inch, 
2  Treble  Blocks,  7  inch, 
8  Treble  Blocks,  6  inch, 

I  Treble  Block,  9  inch,  iron  bound, 
1  Treble  Block,  10  inch,  iron  bound, 

4  Treble  Blocks,  11  inch,  iron  bound, 

11  Treble  Blocks,  13  inch,  iron  bound, 
6  Treble  Blocks,  14  inch,  iron  bound, 

37  Double  Blocks,  22  inch, 

5  Double  Blocks,  21  inch, 
26  Double  Blocks,  20  inch, 
37  Double  Blocks,  18  inch, 
47  Double  Blocks,  17  inch, 
88  Double  Blocks,  16  inch, 
50  Double  Blocks,  15  inch, 
90  Double  Blocks,  14  inch, 

184  Double  Blocks,  13  inch, 

1,338  Double  Blocks,  12  inch, 

311  Double  Blocks,  11  inch, 

371  Double  Blocks,  10  inch, 


63  GO 

2*^  GO 

40  00 

8  40 

5  40 

188  24 

455  04 

649  60 

355  68 

80  GO 

24  GO 
40  GO 
16  00 
30  GO 

357  50 
16  00 
66  GO 
36  00 

120  GO 
8  GO 

63  GO 
36  GO 
10  00 

162  00 

64  00 
51  GO 

25  GO 
20  00 

3  00 
10  GO 


GO 
50 


24  00 

88  00 

54  GO 

240  50 

.30  GO 

149  50 

1-4  25 

211  .50 

352  00 

175  GO 

270  GO 

460  GO 

3,010  50 

559  80 

656  60 


[Doc.  No.  .40.] 


88 


750  Double  Blocks,  9  inch,               -            -  750  00 

656  Double  Blocks,  8  inch,               -            -  690  40 

1,751  Double  Blocks,  7  inch,               -            -  1,400  80 

1,581  Double  Blocks,  6  inch,               -            -  1,106  70 

711  Double  Blocks,  5  inch,               -            -  426  60 

279  Double  Blocks,  4  inch,                -             .  139  50 

39  Double  Blocks,  3  inch,                -             -  15  60 

1  Double  Block,  18  inch,  iron  strapped,    -  13  00 

I  Double  Block,  15  inch,  iron  strapped,    -  10  00 

3  Double  Blocks,  10  inch,  iron  strapped,  16  50 

4  Double  Blocks,  12  inch,  iron  strapped,  28  00 

22  Double  Blocks,  9  inch,  iron  strapped,  110  00 

7  Double  Blocks,  8  inch,  iron  strapped,  31  50 
1  Double  Block,  22  inch,  brass  sheaves,  23  00 
1  Double  Block,  20  inch,  brass  sheaves,  18  00 
3  Double  Blocks,  IS  inch,  brass  sheaves,  39  00 
1  Double  Block,  16  inch,  brass  sheaves,  12  00 

3  Double  Blocks,  15  inch,  brass  sheaves,  33  00 
1  Douhle  Block,  12  inch,  brass  sheaves,  7  00 

4  Double  Blocks,  10  inch,  brass  sheaves,  16  «'0 
12  Double  Blocks,  6  inch,  brass  sheaves,  30  00 

1  Single  I?lock,  26  inch,  brass  sheaves,  8  00 
24  Single  Blocks,  23  inch,  -  -  156  00 
32  Single  Blocks,  22  inch,              -            -  200  00 

8  Single  Blocks,  21  inch,  -  -  48  00 
56  Single  Blocks,  20  inch,               -            -  322  00 

23  Single  Blorks,  19  inch,               -            -  115  00 
82  Single  Blocks,  18  inch,               -            -  369  00 

110  Single  Blocks,  17  inch,               -             -  440  00 

177  Single  Blocks,  16  inch,              -             -  619  50 

129  Single  Blocks,  15  inch,               -             -  3n7  00 

235  Single  Blocks,  14  inch,               -             -  587  50 

4S0  Single  Blocks,  13  inch,              -            -  1,0^0  00 

1,199  Single  Blocks,  12  inch,               -             -  2,398  00 

548  Single  Blocks,  11  inch,               -             -  822  00 

560  Single  Blocks,  10  inch,               -            -  560  UO 

521  Single  Blocks,  9  inch,                -            -  468  90 

603  Single  Blocks,  8  inch,                -            -  482  40 

2,747  Single  Blocks,  7  inch,                 -             -  1,922  90 

1,871  Single  Blocks,  6  inch,                -            -  1,122  60 

319  Single  Blocks,  5  inch,                -            -  159  50 

382  Single  Blocks,  4  inch,                 -             -  152  80 

3  Single  Blocks,  k2  inch,  iron  bound,       -  30  00 

32  Single  Blocks,  2!  inch,  iron  bound,       -  288  00 

2  Single  Bhcks,  20  inch,  iron  bound,       -  17  00 

5  Single  Blocks,  18  inch,  iron  bound,  -  35  00 
2  Single  Blocks,  17  inch,  iron  bound,      -  13  00 


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6  Single  Blocks,  IG  inch,  iron  bnnnd, 
3  Single  Blocks,  15  inch,  inui  hound, 

11   Single  Blocks,  14  inch,  iron  hound, 
10  Single  Blocks,  12  inch,  iron  bonnd, 

10  Single  Blocks,  13  inch,  iron  hotnid, 
1   Single  Bl.ick,  11  inch,  iron  bonnd, 

24  Single  Blocks,  10  nid',  iron  honud, 

3  Single  Blocks,  S  incli,  iron  bound, 
14  Single  Blocks,  7  inch,  ir^-n  hound, 

7  Siii^lp  lilorUs,  0  inch,  iron  bound, 

11  Single  RlofK's,  5  inch,  iron  houud, 

1  Single  Block,  23  inch,  bmss  sheaves, 
38  Single  Blocks,  22  inch,  brass  sheaves 

8  Single  Blocks,  21  inch,  brass  she;u'es 

9  Single  Blocks,  20  inch,  bniss  sheaves 

2  Sinsjln  Blocks,  19  in^^h,  hmss  sheaves 

19  Single  Blocks,  IS  inch,  brass  sheaves 
57  Single  Blocks,  17  inch,  brass  sheaves 
28  Single  Blocks,  lb  inch,  brass  sheaves 
68  Single  Blocks,  15  inch,  brass  sheaves 
04  Single  Blocks.  14  inch,  brass  sheaves 
37  Single  Blocks,  13  inch,  brass  sheaves 

20  Single  Blocks,  12  inch,  brass  sheaves 
51   Singlfi  Blocks,  1!  inch,  brass  sheaves, 

16  Single  Blocks,  !(►  inch,  brass  sheaves, 
9  Cingle  Blocks,  9  inch,  brass  sheaves, 

1  Single  Block,  8  inch,  brass  sheaves, 
65  Fiddle  Blocks,  30  inch, 

2  Piddle  Blocks,  29  inch,  brass,  - 
19  Fiddle  Blocks,  28  inch 

4  Fiddle  Blocks,  2b  inch 
60  Fiddle  Blocks,  24  inch, 

4  Fiddle  Blocks,  22  inch, 
7  Fiddle  Blocks,  20  inch, 

2  Fiddle  Blocks,  19  inch, 
35  Fiddle  Blocks,  18  inch, 

7  Fiddle  Blocks,  17  inch, 

28  Fiddle  Blocks,  16  inch, 

17  Fiddle  Blocks,  15  inch, 

29  Fiddle  Blocks,  14  inch, 
28  Fiddle  P,locks,  13  inch, 

18  Fiddle  Blocks,  12  inch, 

3  Sister  Blocks,  20  inch, 

1  Sister  Block,  21  inch,  brass  sheaves, 
1  Sister  Block,  17  inch,  brass  sheaves, 
1  Shoe  Block,  24  inch, 

8  Shoe  Blocks,  20  inch; 


36  GO 

17  25 
57  75 

45  00 
50  00 

4  00 
84  00 

7  50 
28  00 

10  50 

11  00 
15  00 

513  00 
96  00 
99  00 

18  00 
152  00 
399  00 
1.8  00 
340  00 
2^8  00 
148  00 

(M)  00 

MO  25 

40  00 

20  25 

2  00 
715  00 

20  00 

171  00 

32  00 

330  00 

20  00 

28  00 

7  50 

122  50 

22  75 

84  00 

42  50 

65  25 

56  00 

31  50 

12  00 
10  00 

6  50 

3  00 
14  40 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  85 

4  Shoe  Blocks,  18  inch,                -  -  4  80 
28  Shoe  Blocks,  17  inch,                 -  -  25  20 

12  Shoe  Blocks,  16  inch,  -  -  9  60 
1  Shoe  Block,  15  inch,                   -  -  75 

37  Shoe  Blocks,  14  inch,                -  -  25  90 

37  Shoe  Blocks,  12  inch,                 -  -  22  20 

16  Shoe  Blocks,  8  inch,                  -  -  6  40 

13  Serret  Blocks,  13  inch,               -  -  29  25 
39  Secret  Blocks,  12  inch,                -  -  78  00 

15  Secret  Blocks,  II  inch,               -  -  26  25 

5  Secret  Blocks,  10  inch,               -  -  7  50 

12  Secret  Blocks,  9  inch,  -  -  15  00 
5  Secret  Blocks,  8  inch,  -  -  5  00 
3  Secret  Blocks,  7  inch,                 -  -  2  25 

1  Gin  Block,  20  inch,                     -  -  8  00 

3  (iin  Blocks,  11  inch,                  -  -  9  00 

2  Gin  Blocks,  9,  inr-h,                    -  -  4  00 

1  Snatch  Blork,  14  inch,               -  -  10  00 

2  Snatch  Blocks,  11  inch,              -  -  15  00 

4  Snatch  Blocks,  10  inch,              -  -  28  00 
4  Snatnh  Blo.'ks,  8inch,                -  -  24  00 

16  Snatch  Blocks,  18  inch,  hrass  sheaves,  320  00 
15  Snatch  Blocks,  16  in''h,  brass  sheaves,  27(1  00 

17  Qnadrnple  Blocks,  20  inch,        -  -  304  «>0 

13  Qnadrnple  Blocks,  12  inch,  -  -  65  00 
1  Quadruple  Block,  10  inch,         -  -  4  00 

25  Quadruple  Blocks,  7  inch,          -  -  66  25 

12  Quadruple  Blocks,  6  inch,          -  -  24  00 

45  Dead  Eyes,  6  inch,         -             -  -  18  00 

4  Dead  Eyes,  7  inch,        ...  2  00 

177  Dead  Eyes,  8  inch,         ...  106  20 

61  Dead  Eyes,  9  inch,        -             -  -  39  65 

44  Dead  Eyes,  10  inch,      -            -  -  30  80 

73  Dead  Eyes,  II  inch,      ...  58  40 

277  Dead  Eyes,  12  inch,      .            -  -  219  30 

67  Dead  Eves,  13  inch,      ...  67  00 

159  Dead  Eyes,  14  inch,       -             -  -  190  80 

156  Dead  Eyes,  15  inch,       ...  234  (»0 

77  Dead  Eyes,  17  inch,       -             -  -  154  00 

184  Dead  Eyes,  18  inch,       -            -  -  404  80 

427  lbs.  Small  Chain,  f  inch,  iron, 

1,287  lbs.  Small  Chain,  j\  inch,  iron, 

3,301  lbs.  Small  Chain,  ^  inch,  iron, 

1,915  lbs.  Small  Chain,  ^'^  inch,  iron, 

3,654  lbs.  Small  Chain,  |  inch,  iron, 

4,810  lbs.  Small  (Jhain,  ^  inch,  iron, 

7,989  lbs.  Small  Chain,  |  iuch,  iron, 


86  [Doc.  Xo.  40.] 

21,718  lbs.  Small  Chain,  I  inch,  iron, 
813  lbs.  Small  Chain..  \)i  inch,  iron, 
3,130  lbs.  Small  Chain,  1^  inch,  iron, 
3/All   lbs.  Small  Chain,  li|  inch,  iron, 

52,945  lbs.  amounting  to 
1,212  lbs.  Copper  Rndder  Chain, 
11,603  lbs.  Dry  While  Lead, 
1,731  lbs.  Dry  Yellow  Ochre, 
632  lbs.  White  Lead,  in  oil, 

3  Portal)le  Iron  Forges  for  Ships, 
12  Iron  Hnoys,  35  lbs.  each, 

4  Iron  Buoys,  70  lbs.  each, 

1  Anvil,  143  lbs., 

OJ  Dozen  Tnftin  Buttons, 

24.^  Yards  Black  Cambric, 

12  Skeins  Cat  Gut, 

12  Spools  Cotton, 
105  Yards  Russia  Sheeting, 
2,959  lbs,  Russia  Sheeting  Iron, 

14  Glue  Kettles,      -  .  -  - 

200  Horn  Leaves,  small, 

10  lbs.  Log  Line, 

98  Air  Port  Lights, 

30  Yards  Bleached  Moiisline, 
3,1 10  lbs   Copper  Cut  Nails,  assorted, 
151   lbs.  India  Rnbljer  Packing, 
126  Mounted  Palms, 

24  lbs.  Chrome  Yellow, 

36  Com[»ositi(>n  Rowlocks, 

5  Large  Rigging  Screws, 
10^  lbs.  Thread,  assorted, 

4  lbs.  Shoe  Thread, 
12  Piec(^s  Lamp  Wick, 
325  lbs.  Beeswax, 

460  lbs.  Pig  Zinc,     -  -  -  - 

893  lbs.  Sheet  Zinc, 

4  Hearts,  5  inch, 

2  Hearts,  6  inch,  -        .     - 

6  Hearts,  7  inch, 
29  Hearts,  8  iu'-h, 
20  Hearts,  9  inch, 
22  Hearis,  10  inch, 

10  H«'arts,  1  1  inch,  -  -  x  - 

1  Heart,  12  inch, 

2  Hearts,  13  inch, 

4  Hearts,  16  inch,  ... 

4  HeartS;  17  inch,  -  •  - 


5,S23  95 

424  20 

928  24 

34  62 

75  84 

225  00 

120  00 

80  00 

17  16 

12 

2  45 

3  00 

72 

21  00 

414  26 

14  00 

20  00 

I  40 

122  60 

3  00 

933  00 

64  93 

31  50 

4  80 

18  00 

75  00 

8  40 

40 

70 

130  00 

3()  80 

89  30 

1  40 

80 

3  50 

17  40 

13  00 

15  40 

8  00 

90 

2  00 

7  20 

8  00 

[Doc.  No.  40. J  87 

5  Hearts,  18  inch;  3  Hearts,  20  iirh,      -  18  80 

7  Hearts,  22  inch;  G  Hearts,  24  inch,       -  41  40 

4  Hearts,  26  inch,  -  -  -  15  20 

2  Telegraph  Blocks,  16  inch,         -  -  20  UO 

2,710  Ihs.  Square  Copper,  f  irif'h, 
1,000  lbs.  Sqnare  Copper,  |i  inch, 
3,670  lbs.  Sqnare  Copper,  l^irich, 
477  lbs.  Square  Copper,  j%  inch, 
22,6-51   lbs.  Square  Copper,  A  inch, 
794  lbs.  Square  Copper,  |  inch, 
848  lbs.  Square  Copper,  y\  inch, 
584  lbs.  Square  Copper,  i  inch — 32,734  lbs., 

Amounting  to     9,820  40 
400  lbs.  Round  Copper,  |  inch, 
775  lbs.  Round  Copper,  ^  inch, 
10,766  lbs.  Round  Copper,  j%  inch, 
25,026  lbs.  Round  Copper,  |  inch, 
37,238  lbs.  Round  Copper,  ii  inch, 
8,820  lbs.  Round  Copper,  |  inch, 
610  lbs.  Round  Copper,  ||  inch, 
28,402  lbs.  Round  Copper,  j|  inch, 
19,258  lbs.  Round  Copper,  ||  inch, 
13,670  lbs.  Round  Copper,  |  inch, 
16,412  lbs.  Round  Copper,  |f  inch, 
115,136  lbs.  Round  Copper,  {^  inch, 
2!!<,737  lbs.  Round  Copper,  1  inch, 
7,725  lbs.  Round  Copper,  1^'^  inch, 
9,366  lbs.  Round  Copper,  1^  inch, 
5,200  lbs.  Round  Copper,  \/-  inch, 
4,570  lbs.  R/iund  Copper,  l-^'-^  inch, 
33,190  lbs.  Round  Copper,  lyV  inch — 365,301  !bs., 

Amounting  to     94,978  26 
8,660  lbs.  Round  Copper,  I'.i  inch, 
2,580  lbs.  Round  Copper,  l|  inch, 
7,830  lbs.  Round  Copper,  1^5  inch, 
17,897  lbs.  Round  Copf)er,  1-'-  inch, 
1,754  lbs.  Round  Copper,  l]i  inch, 

930  lbs.  Round  Cop|)er,  1^  inch, 
1,700  lbs.  Round  Copper,  1^  inch, 
680  lbs.  Round  Copper,  1||  inch— 42,031  lbs.. 

Amounting  to     10,928  06 
20  Sheets  ^  in.  3Cx60  Boiler  Copper,  5,745  lbs. 
161        i(    _i_   u  ii  a  <»  3,105  <' 

8      n    I    u         t(         it        it         1,202  *' 

\       "  t\    "        *'         "         "  "^0  " 

10,122  lbs. 
Amounting  to    2^631  72 


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342  Sheets  Braziers'  Copper,  12,617  lbs.,  3,280  42 

14  oz.  Slieailiing  Copper,  1 10  lbs. 


25 

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60 

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1,318 

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20  '' 
22  '' 

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344 

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3,457 
5,305 

30  " 
32  '^ 

7,913 

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12,585 

7,673 

5,355 

2,853 

2,621 

32,213 

30,136 

49.746 

7S,.577 

15,844 

12,239 

250,232  lbs. 

Amouiiliiig  to     65,060  32 

205 

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196 

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135   « 

'     536  lbs. 

Aiuountiiig  to     160  80 

Vails,  ^- 

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If  " 

2     '' 
17,904  lbs. 
Amountnig  to    5,371  20 
600  lbs.  Composition  Spikes,  8  inch, 

500  lbs.  Coru|>osiiion  Spikes,  10  inch,  1,100  lbs.,        30S  00 

24,925  lbs.  old  lioll  Copper,  -  -  4,486  50 

17,715  lbs.  Old  Sheet  Copper,  -  -  3,l!S8  70 

4,320  lbs.  Old  Scrap  Copper,  -  -  777  60 

6I,3b3  lbs.  Con)position,  •  -  -  5,138  30 

8  Gross  2  inch  Iron  Screws,  -  -  8  00 

5  Gross  I  inch  Iron  Screws,  -  -  o  00 

14  Gross  I  inch  Brass  Screws, 
25  Gross  ^  inch  Brass  Screws, 

15  Gross  l.\  inch  Brass  Screws, 
35  Gross  2  inch  Brass  Screws, 


14  Koiiiid  Bastard  Files,  10  inch, 
73  Koniid  Haslard  Files,    9  inch, 

2()3  Round  Bastard  Files,  8  inch, 
12  Flat  Fine  Files,  8  inch, 

291  Round  Bastard  Files,  7  inch, 


Amounting  to 


165  75 

4  20 

21  90 

78  90 

3  60 

68  20 


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30  Pit  Saws  Files,  6  inch,  -  -  6  48 
2U5  Rattail  Files,  6  inrh,                   -             -                   36  90 

31  Rattail  Files,  5  inch,  -  -  5  58 
\)  Cabinet  Rasps,  10  inch,              -             -                     3  33 

16,000  2  inch  Iron  Brads, 
15,000  If  inch  Iron  Brads, 

7,000  U  inch  Iron  Brads, 
24,000  1|  inch  Iron  Brads, 
10,000  1  inch  Iron  Brads, 

3,000  f  inch  Iron  Brads, 
12,000  ^  inch  Iron  Brads, 

12,000  I  inch  Iron  Brads,  90,000,  amounting  to 

41  lbs.  American  Tinned  Rivets,     - 
10  Pairs  3  inch  .Brass  Bntt  Hinges, 

17  Pairs  5.^  inch  Iron  Butt  Hinges, 
400  lbs.  Copper  Cut  Xails, 
500  lbs.  Copper  Cut  Nails, 

37  lbs.  Emory,  assorted, 

20  lbs.  Castile  Soap, 

21  Key  Hole  Saws,  assorted,  without  frames, 
12  Compass  Saws,  assorted, 
15  Hack  Saws,  18x1  inch  blades,   - 

6  Hack  Saws,  llx|  inch  blades,  - 
12  Hack  Saws,  20x.V  inch  blades,  - 

S  Hack  Saws,  lSx|  inch  blades,  - 
1  Drawing  Knil'e, 

123  Centre  Bitts,  I  inch, 
118  Centre  Bitts,  I  inch, 

124  Centre  Bitts,  I  inch, 
1   Brare  and  Bitts,  complete, 

48  I  inch  Fiinner  Chi.sels, 

4  I  inch  Fnrmer  Chisels, 
8  |-  inch  Fnniior  Chisels, 

12  I  inch  P^'iirmer  Conges, 
24  I  inch  Fnrmer  Conges, 

18  \  inch  Farmer  Gouges, 
20  Carppriters'  Diviflers, 

1  Set  Wood  Turning  Tools, 

2  ('nttiiig  Nippers, 

5  Pliers,  .... 
2  Large  ^'pring  Callipers, 

7  Marking  Brushes, 
47  Spur  Bitts,  L.  Hommrdiens,  11  S  inch, 
34  Spur  Mills,  L.  Hoinin«'diens,  10  8  inch, 

7  Spur  Bitt-s    L.  Hninmedipns,  9  8  inch, 

29  Spur  Bitis,  L.  Ilommrdiens,  8-8  inch, 

33  Spur  Biit^,  L.  Hommedieas,  |  inch, 
6b 


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[Doc.  No.  40.] 


13  Spur  I'iits,  L.  Honimediens,    6-8  inch, 

23  S])iir  ]V\ns,  L.  H«Miitiiodien.s,    4  8  inch, 

20  .Spur  Hitts,  L.  Honnnediens,        |  inch, 

3  Small  IJench  Vices, 

1  Large  size  Screw  Wrench, 

2  Oil  Stones,  .  .  .  . 
28  Quires  Emery  Cloth, 

2.V  Reams  Sand  Paper, 

,'j  Bench  Screws, 

7  Carpenters'  Squares, 

()  Ship  Srra|)ers, 

3  Read  rianes,      -  -  -  . 
2  Jack  I'lanes,  double, 

1  Smoothing  Plane, 

I  Fore  Plane,         .  .  .  . 

3G  Chalk  Linos,      .  -  .  . 

15  Brass  I*ad  Locks, 

6  Wardroom  Locks,  .  .  . 

1  Iron  9  inch  Mortise  Door  liOck, 

20  Iron  Pad  Locks, 

0  Iron  Cliest  Locks,  small,  assorted, 


112  Ships'  Augers, 

144  Ships'  Augers, 

2SS  Ships'  Augers, 

7T2  Ships'  Angers, 

285  Ships'  Augers, 

572  Slii|)s'  Augers, 

1,748  Ships'  Augers, 

7(i()  Ships'  Augers, 

54  Shi|)s'  Augers, 


patent,  13-8 
patent,  1 1  8 
patent,  10-8 
patent,  9-8 
patent, 
patent, 
patent,  X 
patent,  6-8 
patent,       j| 


5-8 
8-8 


5  Ships'  Augers,  Cook's  patent,  11  8 

5  Ships'  Augers,  (/ook's  patent,    8  8 
4  Ships'  Augers,  Cook's  patent,    6-8 

11  Ships'  Augers,  Sloat's  pafeni,  10-8 

11  Sheets  18  ounci"  copper,  40  Ihs. 

10  Gallons  Copal  Varnish, 
1.',  Gallons  Japan  Varnish,  - 

6  Gallons  Sweet  Oil, 
66  lbs.  Paris  Gr(ien, 

240  Feet  Glass  LigMs,  10x12, 

50  Feet(;iass  Liglus,  lOxU, 

150  Feet  (ilass  Lights,    8x12, 

450  FeetGla.ss  Lights,  HxK), 

129  Feet  Glass  Lights,  14x12, 

160  Feet  Glass  Lights,  16x14, 

300  Feet  Glass  liights,    9x14, 

150  Feet  Glass  Lights,  12x16, 


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25 
75 
50 
35 
50 
62 
50 
60 
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3  60 
75 

3  33 

1  50 
140  00 
144  06 
288  00 
694  SO 
Mi  50 
4ti2  60 

1,398  40 

532  00 

21  60 

5  00 

4  00 

2  80 
II  00 
10  40 
15  00 

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1,800  Feet  Glass  Liehts,  10x12, 
550  Feet  Glass  Lights,  12x15, 
100  Feet  Glass  Lights,  12x10, 
550  Feet  Glass  Lights,  10x14, 

4,020  feet,  amounting  to 
208  lbs.  Cast  Steel, 
100  lbs.  German  Steel, 
735  lbs.  Blister  Steel, 
147  lbs.  Bat  Cotton, 

1  Box  L\  Tin,      .  -  -  - 

3  Boxes  XXI  Tin, 
5  Boxes  K;  Tin, 

300  lbs.  Wrought  Iron  Nails, 
100  lbs.  Spikes,  5.\  inch, 
180  lbs.  Chrome  Yellow,      - 

4  Reams  Sheathing  Paper,  400  lbs. 
100  lbs.  Boiler  Rivets, 

2  Smiths'  Vices— J  of  60  lbs.  and  1  of  55  lbs., 
8  Gallons  Ziuf  Drying  Oil, 

74  Hooks  and  Thimbles,  6  inch, 
255  Hooks  and  Thimbles,  7  inch, 
777  Hooks  and  Thimbles,  8  inch, 
517  Hooks  and  Tliimbles,  9  inch, 
1,239  Hooks  and  Thimbles,  10  inch, 
341  Hooks  and  Thimbles,  11  inch— 3,203  lbs. 

Amounting  to     1.601   50 

43  Hooks  and  Thimbles,  12  inch, 

16  Hooks  and  Thimbles,  13  inch, 

300  Hooks  and  Thimbles,  19  inch, 

29  Hooks  and  Thimbles,  15  inch, 

1  Hook  and  Thimble,  22  inch— 389  lbs. 

Amounting^  to 
12  Sister  Hooks,  7  inch, 

3  Devil's  Claws;  3  Pairs  Cant  Hooks.      - 
628  Leg  Irons,  .... 

8  Chain  Cable  Nippers,     ... 
10  Gallons  Gum  Dumar, 

247  lbs.  Venetian  Rod, 
2,349  lbs.  Dry  BlaHc  Lead,      - 
4,496  lbs.  White  Zinc  Paint,  in  Oil,    - 
5.0S9  lbs.  White  Zinr  Paint,  drv, 
3,632  lbs.  White  Load,  m  oil,     ' 

356  lbs.  Spanish  Brown, 
2,4^J  lbs.  Spanish  Brown, 
1,891   lbs.  Dry  Yellow  Orhre, 

250  lbs.  Litharge,      .  .  .  . 

2,170  lbs.  Yellow  Ochre,  in  oil. 


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68 

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1,445  lbs.  Composition  Steam  Pipe,     -            -  433  50 

6  Boxes  Till,          -             -             -              -  90  00 
5  Boxes  Tin,         ....  75  oo 

1  B..X  Tin,            ....  16  00 
1,%7  lbs.  Small  Chain,  assorted,         -             -  230  04 

315  Gallons  Spn'ils  'I'lirpcniine,         -             -  157  50 

925  Gallons  l.iiiseed  Oil,       -             -             -  647  50 

140  Gallons  Oil  of  Tar,         -             -             -  77  00 

152  (iailons  Coal  Tar,  4.V  bbls.,  34  gals,  to  the  bbl.,      10  12 

564  Gallons  Fish  Oil,      "      -             -             -  2S2  00 

40  Gallons  I.nbricating  Oil,              -             -  40  00 

210  Gallons  Sperm  Oil,          -             -             -  315  00 

185  Bales  of  Oakum,  9,250  lbs.        -             -  60125 

13,4^0  lbs.  Sheet  Lead,  assorted,           -             -  943  60 

US  Shackles  f<r  Chain  Cables,  3,331  lbs.,  499  65 

9  .Mooring  Swivels,  3,187  lbs.       -             -  54179 

3  .lewsharps  for  Anchors,  1,624  lbs.          -  219  24 

2  Fish  H.ioks,  200  lbs.  -  -  -  30  00 
12  Small  Anchors,  assorted,  from  43  to  ISO  lbs.,  206  25 
22  Grapnel  Is,  1,3.54  lbs.       -             -            -  203  10 

5  Barrels  Rosin,     -             -             -             -  10  00 

16  Barrels  Fitch,      -             .             .             -  40  00 

8  Barrels  Soft  Turpentine,              -             -  36  00 

4  Barrels  Tar,        -             -             -             -  10  00 
200  Wood  Heavers,               ...  76  00 

75  Drying  Stoves,                -             -             -  187  50 

1  Gridiron,             ....  62 

7  Griddles,             ....  3  50 

14  (ialley  Ladles,                 ...  21  00 

5  Iron  Pots,            ....  6  25 

9  Shovels  for  Galley,          ...  6  75 

15  Tongs  lor  Galley,  -  -  -  15  00 
22  Tormentors,  -  -  -  -  11  00 
12  Tinder  Boxes  and  Steel,  -  -  4  80 
12  Mahogany  Chairs,          -             -            -  48  00 

8  Cane  "Bottom  Arm  Chairs,           -             -  16  00 

9  Plain  Cane  Bottom  Cliairs,  -  -  13  50 
43  Dish  Covers,      -             -    '         -             -  60  20 

130  Pieces  Bunting,  assorted  colors,  5,200  yards,         624  00 

5  American  J'iiisigns,  large,           -            -  105  00 

6  American  Ensigns  for  boats,      -            -  20  00 
6  iXmerican  Jacks,              -             -             -  34  50 

4  American  Broad  Pennants,         -             -  (">0  00 
3  American  I^ong  Pennants,          -             -  12  00 

1  American  Storm  Pennant,           -             -  1  ^0 

2  American  Night  1'ennants,         -             -  ^    2  16 

5  Amcriccui  Boat  Peanauts,          ,            ,  i  00 


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1  American  Set  Signals,  -            -  164  00 

37  Quarantine  Flags,  -             -             -  182  .50 

10  Englisli  Ensigns,  -             -             -  130  00 

8  English  .Tacks,  ...  44  00 

5  English  I^ennants,  ...  18  00 

5  French  Ensigns,  ...  65  00 

1  French  .Tack,  ...  5  50 

5  French  Pennants,  -             -             -  IS  00 

5  Spanish  Ensigns,  -             .             .  87  50 

6  Spanish  Pennants,  ...  21  60 
10  Portiignese  I']nsigns,  -             -             -  200  00 

6  Portngnese  Pennants,  ...  21  60 

8  Dutch  TMisigns,  -            -            -  104  00 

6  Dutch  Pennants,  -             -             -  21  60 

8  Danish  Ensigns,  ...  104  00 

13  Danish  Pennants,  ...  4(i  80 

8  Swedish  Ensigns,  -             -             -  104  00 

6  Swedish  I'ennants,  -            -            -  21   60 

7  Norwegian  Ensigns,  -            -            -  01  0(> 

9  Norwegian  Pennants,  ...  32  40 

7  Russian  Ensigns,  -  -  -  105  00 
9  Russian  Pennants,  -             -             -  32  40 

8  Austrian  Ensigns,  -             -             -  129  60 

1  Austrian  Pennant,  ...  3  60 

7  Neapolitan  Ensigns,  -  -  -  154  00 
5  Greek  Ensigns,  -             -             -  94  00 

10  Sardinian  Ensigns,  -            -             -  165  00 

S  Tuscan  Ensign^s,  -            -             -  180  00 

12  Turkish  Ensigns,  -            -            -  211  20 

2  Tripolitan  Ensigns,  ...  44  00 

2  Moorish  Ensigns,  -             -             -  .36  00 

8  Tunician  Engines,  -  -  -  180  80 
7  Egyptian  Ensigns,  -             -             -  123  20 

3  Central  American  Ensigns,  -  -  49  .50 
7  Mexican  FJnsigns,  -             -  127  40 

5  New  Grenada  Ensigns,  -             -  117  50 

6  Equador  Engines,  -  -  -  96  00 
5  Chilian  Ensign.s,  ...  65  00 

7  Peruvian  Ensigns,  -  -  -  143  .50 
5  Brazilian  Ensigns,  -  -  -  110  0() 
5  Muenos  Ayrean  T-'-nsign,",  -  -  70  (KJ 
1    Liberian  Ensign,  -             -             -  13  00 

8  Columbian  Ensigns,  .  -  -  163  20 
1  Belgian  Ensign.  ...  20  (X) 
1  Haytian  Ensign,  -  -  -  19  .H) 
1  Panama  Ensign,  -  13  00 
1  Venezucliaii  Eusign ,  •                       •  524  50 


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1  Japan  Ensign,                 -             -             .  25  00 

1  Niraragnan  Ensign,        -             -             -  15  00 

2  Denmark  Ensigns,  -  -  -  40  00 
1  St.  Domingo  Ensign,  -  -  -  15  00 
1  Prussi.'»n  Ensign,  ...  25  00 
1  Prussian  Jack,  ...  3  (jq 
1    Mnntevidian  Ensign,      ...  22  00 

10  Boat  Grapnels,  assorted,  80S- lbs.  -  120  00 
50  Buoy  Grapnels,  10  lbs.  each,  500  lbs.    -  75  00 

5  iioat  Anchors,                  ...  (32  40 

322  lbs.  Signal  Halliards,  white  lines,           -  45  08 

23  Binnacle  Laujps,             -             -          •  .  11  50 

19  Signal  Lanterns,  copper,  -  .  95  00 
12  Brass  Signal  Lanterns,  red  lights,           -  192  00 

25  Deep  Sea  Lines,  76  lbs.  each,  -  -  266  00 
21  Coasting  l^ines,  21  lbs.  each,  -  -  61  74 
IS  Hand  liines,  15  lbs.  each,           -             .  37  SO 

32  Log  Lines,  8  lbs.  each,               -             .  35  80 

74  Deep  Sea  Leads,  assorted,  2,977  lbs.  -  297  70 
57  Hand  Lines,  505  lbs.      -             -             -  50  50 

11  Patent  Lines,  -  -  .  130  00 
1  Patent  Log,  Massey's,  -  .  .  20  00 
8  Papers  Sewing  Needles,               -             .  48 

15  Copper  Pumps,  with  joints,        -             -  120  00 

20  Wood  Pumps,  with  joints,          -            -  15  00 

33  Log  Line  Reels,              -             -             .  99  00 

26  Deep  Sea  Line  Reels,  -  .  .  91  00 
32  Hand  Trumpets,             -             .,           .  16  00 

850  lbs.  White  Thread,        -             .             .  CSO  00 

16  Sewing  Awls,  -  .  .  .  80 
7  lbs.  Bristles,        -             -             .             .  8  75 

660  Clamp  Brushes,               ...  165  00 

218  Hand  Rrushes,  -             -             .             .  32  70 

129  Long  Handle  Tar  Brushes,        -             -  5160 

80  Short  Handle  Tar  Brushes,        -             -  24  00 

40  4  inch  Single  Blocks,     -            -            -  16  00 

57  5  inch  Single  Blocks,     .             .             .  28  50 

17  6  inch  Single  BI(H-ks,  -  .  .  10  20 
82  7  inch  Singk'  Blocks,  ...  57  40 
20  8  inch  Single  Blocks,  -  .  .  16  00 
39  9  inch  Single  Blocks,     ...  35  10 

75  10  inch  Single  Blocks,  ...  75  00 
25  11  inch  Single  Blocks,  -  -  -  37  50 
38  12  inch  Single  Jilocks,  -             .             .  76  00 

5  13  inch  Single  lilocks,  ...  11  25 

27  14  inch  Single  Blocks,  -  -  -  67  50 
;0  15  inch  Single  Blocks,  -            •            -  30  00 


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48  16  inch  Single  Blocks,  ...  168  00 

9  17  inch  Single  Blocks,  -  -  -  36  00 
14  18  inch  Single  Blocks,  -  -  -  63  00 
20  20  inch  Single  Blocks,  -  -  -  115  00 
13  22inch  Sinde  lilocks,  -  -  -  8125 
89  4  inch  Donble  Blocks,  .  -  -  44  50 
97  5  inch  Uonble  Blocks,  .  -  -  .58  20 
30  6  inch  Donble  Blocks,  .  -  -  61  00 
42  7  inch  Double  Blocks,  -  -  -  33  60 
16  S  inch  Double  Blocks,  -  -  -  14  40 
20  9  inch  Double  Blocks,  -  -  -  20  00 
13  10  inch  Double  Blocks,               -  -                   19  50 

9  11  inch  Double  Blocks,               -  -                   16  20 

24  12  inch  Donble  Blocks,               -  -                   54  00 

13  13  inch  Double  Blocks,               -  -                   32  50 

18  14  inch  Double  Blocks,               -  -                   54  00 

3  15  inch  Double  Blocks,               -  -                   10  50 

10  16  inch  Double  Blocks,               -  -                   40  00 
8  17  inch  Donble  Blocks,               -  -                   36  00 

lb  18  inch  Double  Blocks,               -  -                   84  00 

8  20  inch  Double  Blocks,               -  -                   46  00 
16  22  inch  Donble  Blocks,               -  -                 104  00 

3  18  inch  Treble  Blocks,  -             -  -                   24  00 

9  20  inch  Treble  Blocks,  -             -  -                    90  00 

3  22  inch  Treble  Blocks,  -             -  -                  36  00 

4  6  inch  Sister  Blocks,      ...  3  60 

5  7  inch  Sister  Blocks,      .             -  -                     5  00 
3  8  inch  Sister  Blocks,      .             -  -                     3  75 

3  9  inch  Sister  Blocks,      .              -  -                      4  .50 
1   16  inch  Sister  Block,      -             -  2  75 

1  19  inch  Sister  Block,      ...  3  50 

4  20  inch  Sister  Blocks,     -             -  -                   16  00 

2  26  inch  Sister  Blocks,     -             -  -                   14  00 

1  6  inch  Topsail  Shret  Blo-k,       -  -                     3  00 

5  8  inch  Topsail  Sh«-et  Blocks,      -  -                    22  50 

2  9  inch  Topsail  Shnei  Blocks,      -  -                   11   (K) 
7   10  inch  Topsail  Slipct  Blocks,    -  -                    42  (K) 

4  11  inch  Topsail  Sheet  Blocks,    -  -                    26  00 

5  12  inch  Topsail  Sheet  Blocks,    -  -                    63  00 

1  13  inch  Topsail  Shoei  Block,      -  -                     8  00 

2  8  inch  Snatcjj  Blocks,  12  (M> 

6  9  inch  Snatch  Blocks,  39  (HJ 
16  10  inch  Snatch  Blocks,               -  112  (MJ 

5  11  inch  Snaich  B|..cks,                -  37  50 

15  12  inch  Siiaf^h  Blocks,                -  -                  120  (Kl 

2  14  inch  Snatch  Blocks,                -  -                    20  (MJ 

15  15  inch  Sualch  Blocks,              -  •                165  00 


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4  16  inch  Snatch  Blocks, 

4  IS  inch  Snalch  Blocks, 

.S  20  inch  Snatch  lilocks, 

li  22  inch  Snatch  Blocks, 

1  24  inch  Snatch  Block, 

1  30  inch  Snatch  Block, 

I  32  inch  Snatch  Block, 

1  34  inch  Snatch  IJlock, 

1  10  inch  Cat  Block, 

1  11  inch  Cat  Block, 

2  12  inch  Cat  Blocks, 
1  13  inch  Cat  Block, 
4  14  inch  Cat  Blocks, 

1  16  inch  Cat  Block, 

3  IS  inch  Cat  Blocks, 

2  20  inch  Cat  Blocks, 
6  22  inch  Cat  Blocks, 

8  12  inch  Shoe  Blocks,      - 

9  14  inch  Shoe  Blocks, 
8  16  inch  Shoe  Blocks, 
2  17  inch  Shoe  Blocks,      - 
2  IS  inch  Shoe  Blocks, 

14  6  inch  Dead  Eyes, 

8  7  inch  IJead  Eyes, 

9  8  inch  Dead  Eyes, 
18  9  inch  Dead  Eyes,  ... 
14  10  inch  Dead  Eyes,        ...  9  80 

4  14  inch  Dead  Eyes,  ...  4  80 
11  10  incji  Dead  Eyes,  -  -  -  19  SO 
40  5  inch  Heart  Blocks, 

8  7  inch  Heart  Blocks, 
6   10  inch  Heart  Blocks, 
4  6  inch  Single  Top  Blocks,  iron  bound, 
6  7  inch  Single  Toj)  Blocks,  iron  bound, 
21    8  inch  Single  Top  IMocks,  iron  bound, 

2  9  inch  Single  T  .p  Bh^ks,  iron  bound, 
(j  II  inrh  Single  Top  Blocks,  iron  hound, 
()  12  inch  Single  Top  Blocks,  inui  honnd, 
8  13  inch  Single  Top  Blocks,  iron  bound, 
(■)  II  uich  Single  Top  Blocks,  iron  hound, 
0   1(")  inch  Single  Top  Blocks,  iron  bound, 

3  IS  inch  Single  Toj)  Blocks,  iron  bound, 
8  20  inch  Single  To|)  Blocks,  iron  bound, 
ti  22  inch  Single  Top  Blocks,  iron  bound, 

4  6  inch  Douhle  Blocks,  iron  bound, 
17  S  inch  Double  Blocks,  iron  bound, 

4  9  inch  Double  Blocks,  iron  bound,  20  00 


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6  10  inch  Double  Top  Rlorks,  iron  bound,  33  00 

2  11  inch  Donble  Top  I'locks,  iron  bound,  12  00 

7  12  inch  Double  Top  Blocks,  iron  bound,  49  00 

3  II  inch  Treble  Top  Blocks,  iron  bound,  18  00 
5  12  inch  Treble  Top  Blocks,  iron  bound,                  35  00 

4  14  inch  Treble  Top  Blocks,  iron  bound,  36  00 
2  16  inch  Fiddle  Blocks,  iron  bound,  13  00 

2  17  inch  Fiddle  Blocks,  -  -  6  50 

4  IS  inch  Fiddle  Blocks,  iron  bound,       -  32  00 

3  20  inch  Fiddle  Blocks,  iron  bound,        -  12  00 

5  23  incb  Fiddle  Blocks,  -  -  26  25 

3  25  inch  Fiddle  Blocks,  -  -  18  00 

1  28  inch  Fiddle  Block,  iron  bound,         -  16  00 

4  30  inch  Fidflle  Blocks,  -  -  44  00 

3  6  inch  Secret  Blocks,      ...  1  50 

2  7  inch  Secret  Blocks,      -  .  -  1   50 

4  10  inch  Secret  Blocks,  -  -  6  00 

6  11  inch  Secret  Blocks,  -  -  10  .50 
117  incb  Single  Iron  Blocks,  -  -  24  75 
IS  8  inch  Single  Iron  Blocks,  -  -  45  00 
10  8  inch  Double  Iron  Blocks,  brass  sheaves,  40  00 
22  9  uich  Double  Iron  Blocks,  woo/!^  sheaves,  82  50 
53  10  inch  D'oble  Iron  Blocks,  wood  sheaves,  212  00 
7(1  12  iu'^h  Double  Iron  Blocks,  wood  sheaves,           350  00 

1  Cil   If  inch  Hide  Rop.-,  no  lbs  , 

3  Coils,  2  inch  Hide  Kop,.,390  Ih-^., 
10  Coils  2[  inch  Hide  Kope,  1,600  lbs., 

3  Coils  2J  inch  Hi  le  Rope,  510  lbs., 

4  Coils  3  inch  Hi'le  Bope,  SSO  lbs., 

2  Coils  3|  inch  Hide  Rope,  4s{)  lbs., 

1  Coil  6  in-h  Hide  Rof>e,  /140  lbs., 

2  Coils  2  inch  Hide  Kope,  322  lbs.,  4  sfranned, 
2  Coils  2|  inch  Hide  Rope,  3*^0  lbs.,  4  stranned, 
2  Coils  2^  inch  Hide  Rope,  4*^0  Ijis.,  4  stranned, 
2  Coils  '^1  inch  Hide  Rope  596  lbs.,  4  stranned, 
2  Coils  3  inch  Hide  Ro|v,  714  lbs.,  4  stranned, 
2  Coils  3|  inch  Hide  Ivopc,  840  lbs.,  4  stranned, 
2  Coils  3.^  inch  Hide  Rope,  976  lbs.,  4  stranned, 
2  Coils  3|  in-'h  Hide  Rope,  1,101  lbs.,  4  stranned, 
2  Oils  4  inch  Hide  R>pf,  1 ,2.30  lbs.,  4  stranned, 

2  Coils  4j  inch  Hid»*  Roj»e,  1.416  lbs.,  4  stranned, 

3  Coils  4 J  inch  Hide  Rope,  2,664  lbs.,  4  stranned, 
2  Coils  5  inch  Hide  Rope,  1.968  lbs  ,  4  stranned, 

2  Coils  5\  inch  Hide  Kope,  2,0S0  lbs.,  4  stranned, 

3  Coils  5i  inch  Hide  Rope,  2.4.36  lbs.,  4  stranned, 
3  Coils  5|  inch  Hide  Rope,  2,670  lbs.,  4  stranned, 
1  Coil  6  inch  Hide  Rope,  1,022  lbs.,  4  slranued; 

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2  Coils  6^  inch  Hide  Rope,  2,1.50  lbs.,  4  stranned, 
6  Coils  (3^  iiicii  Hide  Rope,  G/.)TS  lbs.,  4  stranned, 

34,466  lbs.. 
Amounting  to     13,786  40 
6  Coils  1  inch  White  Rope,  360  lbs., 

6  Coils  IJ-  inch  White  Rope,  JOS  lbs., 

7  Coils  1.V  inch  White  Rope,  672  lbs., 

8  Coils  l|  inch  White  Rope,  1,024  lbs., 
2  Coils  2  inch  White  Rope,  316  lbs., 

5  Coils  2.^  inch  White  Rupe,  510  lbs., 

4  Coils  White  Rope,  2}  inch,  800  lbs., 

6  Coils  White  Rope,  3  inch,  1,428  lbs., 

6  Coils  White  R-pe,  3|  inch,  1,680  lbs., 

5  Coils  White  Kope,  3.^  inch,  1,.575  lbs., 

4  Coils  White  Rope,  3|-  inch,  1,508  lbs., 

5  Coils  White  Rope,  4  inch,  2,000  lbs., 
4  Coils  White  Rope,  4i-  inch,  1,828  lbs., 
4  Coils  White  Rope,  Ak  inch,  2,240  lbs., 
4  Coils  White  Rope,  4J  inch,  2,312  lbs., 
2  Coils  While  Rope,  5  inch,  1,330  lbs., 
2  Coils  White  Rope,  5^  inch,  1,400  lbs., 

^  21,391  lbs., 

Amounting  to     2,994  74 
18  Coils  2  inch  Thread  T;u-red  Rope,  1 ,800  lbs., 
84  Coils  9  inch  Thread  Tarred  Hope,  2,520  lbs., 
12  Coils  l(i  incli  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  600  lbs., 

14  Coils  15  iuHi  Thread  Toured  Rope,  1,120  lbs., 

10  Coils  18  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  1,500  lbs., 
2  Coils  21  inch  Thread  Tarred  Riipe,  236  lbs., 

24  Coils  24  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  3,744  lbs., 
22  Coils  1  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  1,320  lbs., 
39  Coils  l\  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  2,73.»  lbs., 

11  Coils  1.',  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  1,320  lbs., 
16  Coils  If  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  2,0S0  lbs., 

16  Coils  2  inch  Thrtad  Tarred  Rope,  3,040  lbs., 

9  Coils  2]  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  2,070  lbs., 
2  Coils  2|  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  540  lbs., 

1  Coil  3  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  330  lbs., 

20  Coils  3 1  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  7,800  lbs., 

11  Coils  3.1,  inch  Thread  "J\'irred  Kope,  4,810  lbs., 

17  Coils  3l  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  lt»,0.30  lbs., 
9  Coils  4  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  5,4(10  lbs., 

16  (..'oils  4|  inch  Thread  Tarred  Roj)e,  10,560  lbs., 

15  Coils  4.',  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  10,050  lbs., 
10  Coils  45  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  6,900  lbs., 

7  Coils  5  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  6,090  lbs., 
y  Coils  5^  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  7,425  lbs., 


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12  Coils  5.V  inch  Tlimad  Tarred  Rope,  10,800  lbs. 
7  Coils  5|  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  7.245  lbs., 

3  Coils  6  innh  Thrend  Tnrred  Rope,  3,30(i  lbs., 
6  Coils  6}y  inch  Thread  Tarred  Rope,  S,|.30  lbs., 

123,520  lbs., 
Amounting  to     17,292  SO 

15  Coils  Spun  Yarn,  1,3.50  lbs., 
41  Coils  Spun  Yarn,  3,485  lbs., 

5  Coils  Spun  Yarn,  500  lbs.— 5,335  lbs., 

Amonntina;  to     740  90 

11  Hanks  Tarred  Marline,  88  lbs.  -      "  12  32 
31  Coils  Tarred  Hambroline,  1,860  lbs.       -                 258  40 

16  Coils  Tarred  H,ouseline,  864  lbs.  -  120  96 

4  Coils  Soft  Wormline,  600  lbs.  -  84  00 

17  Coils  1  inch  Bolt  Rope,  850  lbs., 

5  Coils  1|  inch  l3olt  Rope,  200  lbs., 

14  Coils  1^  inch  Bolt  Rope,  840  lbs., 

3  Coils  l|  inch  Bolt  Rope,  150  lbs., 
10  Coils  2  inch  Bolt  Rope,  800  lbs., 

2  Coils  21  inch  Bolt  Rope,  244  lbs., 

9  Coils  2.^  inch  Bolt  Rope,  1,260  lbs., 
9  Coils  2|  inch  Bolt  Rope,  1 ,620  lbs., 

4  Coils  3  inch  Bolt  Rope,  876  lbs., 

21   Coils  'S\  inch  Bolt  R<ipe,  5,040  lbs., 
10  Coils  3t-  inch  Bolt  Rope,  2,800  lbs., 

15  Coils  3f-  inch  Bolt  Rope,  5,100  lbs., 
9  Coils  4  inch  Bolt  Rope,  3,600  lbs., 

6  Coils  4]-  inch  Bolt  Rope,  2,.520  lbs., 

7  Coils  4.^  inch  Bolt  Rope,  3,276  lbs., 

8  Coils  4f  inch  Bolt  Rope,  4,144  lbs., 
8  Coils  5  inch  Bolt  Rope,  4.500  lbs., 

10  Coils  5[  inch  Bolt  Rope,  (5,300  lbs., 

3  Coils  5^  inch  Bolt  Rope,  1 ,920  lbs., 

4  Coils  5J  inch  Bolt  Rope,  2,800  lbs., 

6  Coils  6  inch  Bolt  Rope,  4.415  lbs., 

5  Coils  6|  inch  Bolt  Rope,  4,-500  lbs.— 57,815  lbs. 

Amounting  to     9,2.50  40 

'11   Coils  White  Marline,  540  lbs.     -  -  75  60 

J 6  Coils  White  Houseline,  320  lbs.  -  44  80 

12  Coils  6  Thrratl  White  Hambroline,  4«0  lbs.,  67  20 

7  Coils  9  Thread  While  Hambroline,  245  lbs.,  34  .30 

3  Coils  2[  inch  Wbifp  Rope,  40«  lbs.         -  57  12 

4  Coils  1^  inrh  Manilla  Rope,  3:i6  lbs., 
4  Coils  1|  inrb  AInnilla  Ropp.  100  lbs., 
4  Coils  2\  inch  Manilla  Rope,  SOO  lbs., 

7  Coils  3[  inch  Manilla  Rope,  2.366  lbs., 
12  Coils  3 J  inch  Manilla  Rope,  4,188  lbs., 


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17  Coils  3f  inch  Manilla  Rope,  6,800  lbs., 
27  Coils  4  inch  Manilla  Rope,  12,420  lbs., 
12  Coils  4}  inch  Manilla  Rope,  0,480  lbs., 

7  Coils  4h  inch  Manilla  Rope,  4,119  lbs., 
11   Coils  5  inch  Manilla  Rope,  7,870  lbs., 

4  Coils  5.V  inch  Manilla  Rope,  3,520  lbs. 

49,305  lbs. 

Anmunting  to     5,423  55 

14  Fish  Hooks  for  Anchors,  772  lbs.          -  115  80 
144  Fids,       .            .             -            .            .  57  75 

20  Fish  Grains,       ....  40  00 

389  Iron  Hanks,        ....  58  35 

20  Harpoons,            ....  30  UO 

269  Hooks  and  Thimbles,    -        .     -            -  134  50 

307  Sister  Hooks,      -             -             -             -  183  50 

200  Fishing  Hooks,               ...  2  00 

8  Raw  Hides,  128  lbs.  Leather,     -             .  35  84 

18  Riggers'  Screws,             -             -             -  270  00 

5  R'pe  Jacks,  ....  250  00 
22  Shoemakers'  Knives,  ...  2  64 
44  Cant  Hooks,       ....  44  00 

200  Fishing  Lines,                 ...  50  OO 

18  Hides  Rigging  Leather,  686  lbs.             -  240  10 
306  Marline  Spikes,               ...  153  00 

31  Scriving  Mallets,             ...  23  25 

17  Top  Manls,         ....  17  00 

1,650  Sail  Needles,  assorted,   •             -             -  16  50 

55  jMonnted  Palms,             -             -             -  13  75 

140  Palm  Plates,       -             -             -             -  16  80 

358  Block  Pins,  iron,            ...  35  SO 

19  Pairs  Pincers,                  ...  4  75 
7  Pick  Axes  and  Grubbing  Hoes,              -  8  75 

65  Sheaves,  Assorted,          -             -             -  48  75 

84  Common  Shovels,           -             .             .  84  00 

38  Scoop  Shovels,                ...  47  50 

94  Scrapers,             ....  23  50 

450  lbs.  Sounding  Twine,    -             -             -  450  00 

40  lbs.  Whipping  Twine,   -            -            -  12*00 

90  lbs.  Sewing  Twine,        .             .             .  27  00 

115  Leading  Trucks,             -             -             -  86  25 

6  Signal  Trucks,                ...  9  00 
5  Wooden  Commanders,  -             -             -  10  00 

24  Hollow  Adzes,                ...  60  00 

9  Augers,  ....  4  50 
76  Brad  Awls  and  Handles,  -  -  3  80 
17  (Composition  Air  Port  Plunges,               -  110  50 

15  device  Burs,     ....  (50  00 


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22  Crow  Bars,        ....  44  00 

34  Steel  Point  Drift  Bolts,               -            -  8  50 

55  Eye  Bolts,           ....  42  50 
15G  Ring  Bolts,         .             -             .             .  78  00 

72  Con;position  Pump  Boxes,  1,101  lbs.  -  330  30 
58  Whitewash  Brushes,  -  -  -  20  10 
10  Dusting  P^rushes,  ...  4  Qo 
28  A'arnish  Brushes,             ...  ]4  oo 

56  Paint  Brushes,                 ...  30  20 

73  Sash  Tool  Brushes,  -  -  .  14  60 
16  (jlne  Brushes,  ...  1  06 
60  Yards  Green  Baize,         ...  30  00 

400  Belaying  Pins,                 -             -             -  200  00 

5  Main  Condu(?tors,           -             -             -  50  00 

12  Carpenters'  Compasses,              -             -  I  92 
206  Hand  Cold  Chisels,        -             -             -  103  00 

21  Furmer  Cnisois,              ...  7  35 

21   Socket  Chisels,               ...  10  50 

6  Brass  Cocks,       ....  7  .50 
410  lbs.  1|  inch.  Bolt  Copper,           -             .  106  60 

J2  Sheets  30  ounce  Copper,  90  lbs.              -  23  40 

15  Sheets  32  ounce  Copper,  120  lbs,  -  31  20 
10  Mast  Callippers,               ...  22  50 

35  Tin  Candlesticks,  with  lamps,                -  14  00 
560  lbs.  ^  inch  Chain,  for  fishing  yards,       -  67  20 

2  Glaziers'  Diamonds,       -      '       .             .  10  00 

43  Turning  Chisels,            ^             .             -  12  90 

32  Turning  Gouges,            -             -             -  12  80 

6,136  lbs.  Small  Chain,  assorted  sizes,            -  736  32 

640  Iron  Thimbles,  assorted,             -             -  64  00 

7  Diaphram  Water  Filters,             -             -  70  00 
200  lbs.  Boiler  Rivets,           ...  10  00 

16  Boxes  Chain  Cable  Tools,  -  -  104  00 
41  Chain  Cable  Shackles,  1 ,680  lbs.  -  252  00 
16  Chain  Nippers,                ...  40  00 

8  Stop  Cocks  for  Hose,      ...  80  00 

14  Copper  Funnels,             ...  7  00 

15  Yards  Fearnought,  ...  30  00 
54  Sheets  Felt,        -            -            -             -  86  40 

9  Nail  Gimlets,  ....  45 
64  Funuer  Gouges,  -  -  -  11  34 
62  Socket  Chisels,                -             -             -  26  00 

152  Glass  Li ght,s,  14x16,      -             -            -  42  48 

40  lbs.  Glue,            -             -             -             .  10  00 

13  Carpenters'  Gouges,  ...  3  25 
10  Claw  Hammers,  ...  5  00 
54  Hooks  and  Staples,  iron,            -            -  6  48 


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16  Hooks  and  Eyes,  brass,              -            -  4  00 

3S  Reef  Hooks, "     -             -             -             -    -  38  00 

8  Pair  Brass  Hinges,  -  -  -  2  80 
4o  Guard  Hoops,                   -             -             -  90  00 

5.50  Feet  Leading  Hose,        -             -             -  440  wO 

100  Feet  Suction  Hose,         -             -             -  170  00 

100  Caulking  Irons,               ...  25  00 

42  Horsing  Irons,                 ...  42  00 

4  Pallet  knives,                  ...  1  43 

4  Putty  Knives,                   ...  SO 

6  Butchers'  Knives,           .             .             .  1  80 
1  Glue  Kettle,                     ...  1  ()0 

55  Iron  Locker  Locks,         -             -             -  27  50 

47  Iron  Drawer  Locks,  -  -  -  23  50 
23  Iron  Chest  Locks,  ...  7  59 
65  Iron  Pad  Locks,              -             -             -  II  70 

3  Iron  Door  Locks,  ...  2  25 
18  Chalk  Lines,  ...  1  yo 
13  lbs.  Lamp  Black,             ...  52 

7  Deck  Lights,                   ...  7  00 

48  Air  Port  Lights,              -            -            -  60  00 

5  Magazine  Lights,            -             -             -  25  00 

9  Pitch  Lai  lies,                   -             .             .  18  00 

6  Casting  Ladles,               ...  6  00 
9  Turning  Lathes  and  Tools,        -             -  3G0  00 

40  lbs.  Yarn  Lamp  Wink,                -             -  8  00 

79  Gross  Wove  Lamp  Wick,           -             -  55  30 
208  Glass  Lamp  Chimneys,               -             -  32  16 

60  Life  Preservers,               -             -             -  105  00 

80  lbs.  Chloride  Lime,         ...  4  00 

4  H..rsiiig  Mallets,  ...  8  00 
51  Caulking  iMallets,  -  -  -  63  75 
45  Pitch  Mops,        -            .            -            .  11  25 

7  Sets  Copper  Measures,  ...  56  00 
150  lbs.  Composition  Sheathing  Nails,  -  45  00 
263  lbs.  Wrought  Iron  Nails,  assorted,  -  13  15 
885  lbs.  Cut  Nails,  assorted,  -  -  35  40 
296  lbs.  Copper  Nails,  assorted,         .             -  88  80 

30  lbs.  Scupper  Nails,  assorted,       -             -  6  30 

8  Callous  Sweet  Oil,          -             -             -  12  00 

4  Gallons  Noatsfoot  Oil,  ...  4  00 
100  lbs.  Oakum,        ....  6  50 

26  Rudder  Pintles,  6,780  lbs.  -  -  2,034  00 

5  Grooving  Planes,             ...  5  00 

9  Rabbit  IManes,                 ...  5  58 
3  Long  Jointer  Planes,      ...  6  00 

60  Beading  Planes,             ,            ,            ,  30  00 


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^16  Mouldincr  Planes,  ...  8  00 

1  Plough  Plane,  ...  4  50 
2S  Match  Planes, 

150  lbs.  l>ead  Pipe, 

520  lbs.  Black  Paint,  in  oil, 

3;^0  lbs.  White  Lead,  in  oil, 

650  lbs.  White  Zinc  P.iint,  in  oil,     - 

5  lbs.  Prussian  Blue, 

160  lbs.  Red  Lead,  dry, 

90  lbs.  Chrome  Yellow,      - 

100  lbs.  Chrome  Green, 

2f  lbs.  Vermillion, 

4S0  lbs.  Litharge,      .  .  -  - 

14  lbs.  Spanish  Brown, 
2.3  lbs.  Indian  Red,  .  .  . 
23  lbs.  Terradesienna, 

112  lbs.  Tnrkry  Umber, 
10  lbs.  Manne  Blue, 

15  lbs.  Sugar  of  Lead, 
3  lbs;  White  Vitriol, 

25  Gallons  Asphaltnm  Varnish, 

8  l\iint  Stones  and  Mullers, 
25  Tin  Paint  Buckets, 
2,000  Sheets  Sand  Paper, 

27  Spike  Punches,  .  .  - 

18  Nail  Punches, 
200  lbs.  Copper  Rivets  for  Boats, 
32  lbs.  Composition  Clinch  Rings, 

10  Composition  Row  L'lcks,  40  lbs. 

7  Composiiion  Scujjper  Valves,     - 
23  Sounding  Rods, 

2  2  Foot  Rules, 

8  Segments  for  Bells, 
B  Pairs  Steelyards, 

1 1  Whip  Saws,        .  .  -  - 

3  Hand  Saws,        .  .  -  - 

12  Wood  Saws,        .  .  -  - 
2  Table  Saws  Compass,  - 
I    Sash  Saw,            .  .  -  - 
1    Panel  Saw,         .  .  -  - 

1  Compass  Saw,    .  .  -  - 

2  Key  Hole  Saws, 
200  lbs.  Composition  Spikes,  assorted, 
100  lbs.  Iron  Spikes,  assorted, 

IH  Wood  r'lamp  Screws,     - 

I   Wood  Bench  Screw, 
12  Jack  Screws,      .... 


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29  Gross  Brass  Screws, 
3'.i  (iross  Iron  Screws, 
10,000  Iron  Sprigs, 

2  Spoko  Shaves,    - 
9.^  Iron  Staples, 

1  Grindstone, 

3  Trying  Squares, 

1  Iron  Square, 

2  Saw  Sets, 

S  Papers  Iron  Tables, 

'A  lioxes  Siii«j;le  Tin, 

9  Large  Hcnch  Vices, 

4  Hand  \  ires, 

21  lbs.  Copper  Wire, 

115  lbs.  Iron  Wire, 

127  lbs.  Brass  Wire, 

2  Shifting  Wrenches, 

I  Coopers'  Adze, 

7  Coopers'  Axes, 

7  Conj)ers'  Bung  Borers, 

4  Coopers'  Tap  Borers,     - 

4  Coopers'  Conipasses, 

11  Coopers'  C'rows, 

10  Coopers'  Iron  Drivers,   - 

29  Coopers'  Frows, 

30  Coopers'  Flags, 

7  Coopers'  Haunners, 

8  Sets  Coopers'  Truss  Hoops,  wood, 

1  Set  Coopers'  Truss  Hoops,  Iron, 
7  Coopers'  Marking  Irons, 

12  Coopers'  Beck  Irons, 

19  Coopers'  Flagging  Irons, 
2.")  Coopers'  Jointers'  l'i;ines, 

2  Coopers'  Drawing  Knives, 

20  Coopers'  Ivtmnding  Knives, 
7  O)o|)ers'  Hollow  Knives, 

13  Cooj)ers'  Block  Planes, 
30  Co(»pers'  Rivet  Punches, 

250  lbs.  Coopers'  Rivets, 

15  Coop  Ms'  Bucket  Shaves, 

12  Can  Shaves,  Coopers'  ,- 

0  (,'oo|iers'  In  Shaves, 

5  Coopers'  \  ices, 

81   Store  R<ioui  LaiUerns,  copper,    - 

0  Fore  Hold  Lanterns,  brass, 
20  .Main  Deck  Lanterns,  brass, 
40  Bowsprit  Lanternii;  brass, 


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2  Mizeii  Top  Lanterns,  brass, 

19  Wheelliouse  Lanterns,  brass, 

3  Large  Globe  Lanterns,  brass, 

2  Sniitbs'  Anvils, 

4  Hand  Bellows, 
67  lbs.  IJornx,  .... 
91   Batb  Bricks,       -  .  .  . 

14  lbs.  Sheet  Brass, 
10  Drill  Bows,         .  .  .  . 

15  Breast  Storks,    -  -  -  . 

3  Sniiibs'  Callipers, 
6  1I)S.  Crocus  Mortis, 

6  Scis  Dies,  letters  and  figures,     - 
10  Drill  Slock  Presses, 

351    Pi'es,  assorted,  ... 

42  Kivetiiig  Hammers,         ... 

7  Sledge  Hammers, 
27  Tmiiers'  Ha:mners, 
12  Saddh-rs'  Haiimcrs, 

4  Hardie's  Hammers,  ...  2  (M) 
31  H  ind  Irons,  ...  25  ,50 
3'.»  Lg  lions,          ....                   2^j  24 

4  Pair  I'iver.s.         .... 
^•3  Sinitlis'  Puii^lie^,  iss  ricd, 
3H  Kasps,  .... 
21    Uive  nig  To.  Is,  ... 
23   Hack  .Saws,  f^ompl'te, 

16  Haf-k  Saw  Blades, 
l!S  Screw  IM.iics  and  Taps,  assorted, 

8  I'air  H  Hid  Shears, 

3  Pair  Tinners'  Shears,     ... 

5  l^air  Sheep  She.irs, 

20  lbs.  Brass  S-  Ider, 
50  lbs.  Pewter  Si»lder, 
46  Soldering  linns, 

9  Iron  Slakes,        .... 
8  Tinners'  E<lffing  Slakes, 

12  Planishing  Stakes, 
70  lbs.  Cast  Sleel,  a.ssorted, 
38  Smiths'  Tongs, 
K)  Tap  Wrenches, 

4  lbs,  R4itten  Stone. 
110  Ib.s,  Kmery,  assorted, 

1,108  Coniposiiion  Friction  Bushings  for  Blocks, 
20  Rolls  Worsted  Binding, 

13  Sailinakers'  ik'nches, 
2  Bolu  ^o.  1  Flux  Uauvas,  •  •  ^  OU 

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29  Bolts  No.  2  Flax  Canvas,  -  -  377  00 
20  Bolts  No.  3  Flax  Canvas,            -             -  250  00 

1  Bolt  No.  4  Flax  Canvas,  -  -  12  00 
20  Bolts  No.  5  Flax  Canvas,           -             -  230  00 

7  Bolts  No.  6  Flax  Canvas,  -  -  7s  00 
12  Bolts  No.  7  Flax  Canvas,            -             -  132  00 

2  Bolts  No.  8  Flax  Canvas,           -             -  21   50 

3  Bolts  No.  2  Cotton  Canvas,  -  -  29  25 
3  Bolts  No,  4  Cotton  Canvas,  -  -  27  00 
5  Bolts  No.  5  C(ttton  Canvas,  -  -  43  75 
3  Bolts  No.  6  Cotton  Canvas,  •  -  25  50 
3  Bolts  No.  7  Cotton  Canvas,  -  -  24  00 
2  Bolts  No.  8  Cotton  Canvas,       -             -  15  00 

1  Bolt  No.  9  Cottoti  Canvas,  -  -  7  00 
5  Bolts  No.  10  Cotton  Canvas,      -             -  32  50 

58  Iron  Clews,        ....  5S  00 

10  Iron  Commanders,  -  -  -  10  00 
18  Sail  Hooks,        ....  9  00 

2  Sail  Knives,  ...  -  60 
22  Sides  Bellows  Leather,  100  lbs.  -  64  00 
20  Sail  Prickers,  ...  -  4  00 
20  Sail  Rubbers,      ...             -  4  00 

11  Brass  Squares,    -             .             -             -  5  50 
1  Pair  Scissors,     ....  38 

8  lbs.  Cotton  Twisted,      ...  2  OS 

30  lbs.  Beeswax,  -  -  -  -  12  00 
10  Yard  Sticks,  ...  -  3  00 
94  Smiths'  Hot  Chisels,  ...  47  00 
16  Cape  Chisels,     -             -             -             -  6  00 

1   Swivel  Ijanip,     ....  5  00 

3  Paint  Mills,        ....  12  00 

1  Tape  Line,  -  -  -  -  5  00 
170  Wrenches,  assorted,       -             -             -  127  50 

45  lbs.  Antratrilion  Metal,               -             -  15  75 

2  lbs.  Red  Chalk,  ...  12 
337  lbs.  Sheet  Cinn  Packing,  -  -  144  91 
310  lbs.  Pig  Lead,  -               -             -             -  21  70 

1,700  lbs.  I'ackiuR  Yarn,         -             -             -  255  00 

300  lbs.  Cotton  Vaste,          -             -             -  3C)  00 

1,520  lbs.  Hemp  Waste,           -             -             -  182  40 

2  Reams  P:merv  Cloth,      -             -             -  19  20 

l.\  Reams  Emory  Paper,      -.            -             -  7  20 

,50  lbs.  Black  Lead,              ...  2  50 

30  lbs.  Soap  Stone,               -             -             -  90 

20  lbs.  Pumice  Stone,         ...  1  00 

350  Sheets  Horn,      ....  35  00 

616  lbs.  Lamp  Black,           -            -            -  24  64 


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1  Brig's  Galley,     -             -             -             .  400  00 

4  Sloop's  Galleys,               .             -             .  3,200  00 

7  Frigate's  Galleys,            -             -             .  7,000  00 

3  T4's  Galleys,       -             .             .             .  3^(^00  00 

20  Composition  Air  Port  Plunges,                -  130  00 

1,754  Tons  Anthracite  Coal,  -             -             .  8  770  00 

1,269  q^ons  Soft  Coal,               -             -             .  6,345  00 

7  Reams  Cap  Paper,          -             -             -  21  00 

3  Reams  Letter  Paper,       -             -             -  12  00 

4  Reams  Regulation  Paper,  -  -  24  00 
1^  Reams  Letter  Paper,  printed  headings,  7  50 

4  8  20  Reams  Envelope  Paper,      -             -  22  00 

3  Reams  Blotji ng  Paper,                -             -  12  00 
9  Requisition  Books,  printed,        -             -  27  (X) 

1  Blank  Book,  3  quires,                  -             -  7.5 

2  Blank  Books,  2  quires,  -  -  1  00 
12  Blank  Books,  1  quire,  -  -  3  00 
12  Memorandum  Books,  -  .  3  00 
8.}  Gross  Faber's  Lead  Pencils,       -             -.  .34  00 

14  2-12  Dozen  Drawing  Pencils,     -             -  17  71 
1   Dozen  Stenographic  Pencils,      -             -  50 

15  Quires  Bl'^tting  Boards,  -  -  9  00 
35  Bottles  Black  Ink,           ...  g  75 

15  Bottles  Red  Ink,  -  -  -  3  75 
30  Bottles  Carmine,  -  -  -  3  60 
12  Ink  Stands,        -             -             .             .  4  44 

1  Box  Drawing  Instruments,        -            -  10  00 

2  Boxes  Water  Colors,       ...  y  00 
2  Ink  Saucers,       -             .             .             .  12 

18  Round  Rulprs,    ....  3  60 

16  Parallel  Rulers,                -             -             -  12  00 
2  Flat  Rulers,        -             -             .             .  20 

100  Ofli'«ial  Envelopes,          ...  80 

90n  OtfiriMl  Envelopes,          ...  6  40 

19  Singin  Slates,     -             -             .             .  4  75 

11  Log  Slates,  double,         -              -             -  13  75 

4  Penknivt's,  ....  6  00 
34  Sheets  Drawing  Paper,  atlas,  -  -  4  08 
28  Sheets  Drawing  Paper,  Bristol  boards,  5  04 
64  Shf'ets  Drawing  Paf>er,  imf>erial,             -  6  40 

9  Sheets  Drawing  Paper,  anti(]uarian,       -  4  50 

72  Sheets  Drawing  Paper,  merJium,             -  3  60 

37  Sheets  Drawing  Paper,  Columbian,        -  3  70 

12  Shcf'ts  Drawing  I'aper,  demy,  -  -  48 
12  Sheets  Drawing  Paper,  cap  size,             -  36 

1 16  Sheets  Tracing  Paper,                 -             -  23  2<1 

72  Yards  Tracing  Clolh,     ...  25  20 


108  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

26  Sheets  Double  Elephant, 

24  Sheets  Drawing  Paper,  royal,     - 
21  Sheets  Drawing  Paper,  super  royal, 

130  Sheets  Drawing  Pajier, 

6  5-20  Reams  Cartridge  Paper, 
2h  Reams  Log  Paper, 

I    Ream  Distrilmtion  Rolls, 

4  Blank  Books,  snmi-monthly  reports, 

20  Steam  l,og  IJooks,  quarterly, 

18  Steam  l>og  Books,  yaily, 
1  Ream  Blank  Rpquisilions, 

1  Ream  .Monthly  Returns, 

2  Reams  Weekly  Returns, 

18  pounce  B"xes, 

25  (^ienes  Silk  Taste, 

4  Dozen  Erasive  Rubber, 
80  Pen  Holders,       - 

5  Ivory  Paper  Folders, 

1  Eraser,- 

5  4-12  Dozen  Red  Tape, 

4  Dozen  Cierman  Silver  Drafting  Tacks, 
43  Drafiiiig  l^ns,     - 

7,050  auills, 

2^  Gross  Steel  Pens, 
1,150  Slaie  Pencds, 

37  Camel's  Hair  Pei^ils, 

12  Papers  Ink  Powder, 

25  Sand  Box.-s, 
140  lbs.  niack  Sand, 

19  Gunier's  Scales, 

7  lbs.  Gnm  Arabic, 
14  lbs.  Sealing  Wax, 

2  Portf'lios, 
8.^-  lbs.  Wafers, 

7  Wafer  Seals,       - 

5  lbs.  Erasive  Rubber, 
364,340  lbs.  Round  iron, 
262,023  lbs.  Sq^iare  Iron, 
282,837  lbs.  Flat  Iron, 

17,495  lbs.  Plate  Iron, 


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20 

40 

31 

25 

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70 

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111 

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10 

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5 

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60 

63 

50 

2 

67 

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19 

35 

70 

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5 

50 

3 

45 

74 

36 

3 

75 

7 

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5 

70 

3 

50 

8  40 

3  00 

3 

40 

3 

50 

10 

00 

10,930 

20 

7,860 

69 

8,485 

11 

524 

85 

$753,690  83 


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Timber  and  Tinibcr  Materials ^  Boats  and  Sjjars. 


Live  Oak  for  Ships  of  the  Line: 

88,188  Cubic  Fe^t  Frame,  cut  to  mould, 
46,641    Cubic  Feet  Promiscuous  Timber, 
4S,8.':}3  (^ubic  Feet  10  sets  comf)lete  Beams, 
2,949  Cubic  Feet  I  set  iucomplete  Beauis, 
6,677  Cubic  Feet  7  sets  complete  Keelsons, 
528  Cubic  Feet  1  set  incomplete  Keelsons, 
I  Knee, 

Amounting  to     276,507  55 

Live  Oak  for  Frigates: 

10.017  Cubic  Feet  Frame,  cut  to  mould, 
13.3^6  Cubic  Feet  Promiscuous  'I'iuiber, 
9,199  Cubic  Feel  5  sets  complete  Beams, 

304  Cubic  Feet  2  inC(MTiplete  Beams, 
8,974  Cubic  Feet  7  coniplete  sets  Keelsons, 
1,926  Cubic  Feet  iucon)plete  Keelsons, 
40  Knees, 

Amounting  to    63,322  91 

Live  Oak  for  Sloops: 

23,826  Cubic  Feet  Frame,  cut  to  mould, 
47,825  Cubic  Feet  Promiscuous  Timber, 
88  Cubic  Feet  complete  sets  Keelsons; 
870  Cubic  Feet  incomplete  sets  Keelsous, 
85  Knees; 

Amounting  to     175,971  96 

Live  Oak  for  Brigs  or  Schooners: 

1 ,101   Cubic  Feet  Frame,  cut  to  mould, 
14,647  Cubic  Feet  Promiscuous  Timber, 
207  Cubic  Feet  incomplete  sets  Keelsons, 
8  Knees, 

Amounting  to    19,177  36 


no 


[Doo.  No.  40.] 


Live  Oak  for  Steamers: 

25  Cubic  Feet  Frame,  cut  to  mould, 
7H9  Cubic  Feet  Promiscuous  Timber, 
5,745  Cubic  Feet  4  complete  sets  Keelsons, 

Amounting  to 


10,188  25 


Live  Oak  for  Steamers  for  harbor  defence: 


9,545  Cubic  Feet  Frame,  cut  to  mould, 

1,000  Cubic  Feet  Promiscuous  Timber, 

864  Cubic  Feet  1  set  incomplete  Keelsons, 


Amounting  to 


White  Oak: 


77,807 
1,836 
1,030 


Lineal  Feet  White  Oak  Plank, 
Cubic  Feet  White  Oak  Plank  Stocks, 
Cubic  Feet  White  Oak  Curved  Timber, 
22,020  Lineal  Feet  Wliite  Oak  Gun  Carriage 
Timber,  .  .  .  . 

918  White  Oak  Knees, 

Yellow  Pine: 

55,117  Cubic  Feet  Yellow  Pine  Beams, 
28,615  Cubic  Feet  Yellow  Pine  Mast  Timber, 


16,837  24 


4,668  42 
633  42 
412  00 

1,431  40 
7,389  90 


31,270  20 
16,882  85 


St.  Domingo  Mahogany: 

1,500  Feet  5  inch  St.  Domingo  Mahogany  Plank, 

7,0i)l)  Feet  4  mch  St.  Domingo  Mahogany  l^laiik, 

2,oU0  Feet  3  inch  St,  Domingo  Mahogany  Plank, 

1, ()•')()  Feet  2  inch  St.  Domingo  Mahogany  Plank, 


270  00 

1,260  00 

451)  00 

189  00 

6,101)  Feet  1  inch  St.  Domingo  Mahogany  Boards,    1,638  00 


Bay  wood: 

1,940  Feet  5  inch  Baywood  Plank, 
2,59S  Feet  4  inch  Baywood  Pl.uik, 
5,456  Feet  3  inch  Baywood  Plank, 

1,830  Feet  2  inch  Bnywood  Plmk, 
7,837  Feet  I  inch  Baywood  Boards, 

Cherry: 

840  Feet  3  in-h  Cherry  Plank, 
2,380  Feet  2  inf  b  Cherry  Plank, 
5,982  Feet  I  inch  Cherry  Boards, 


349  20 

467  64 
982  08 

329  40 
1,410  66 


58  80 
166  60 
418  74 


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Black  Walnut: 

462  Foet  4  inch  Bla^k  Walnnt  Plank,  -  32  34 

279  Feet  3  inch  Bhvk  Wuhmt  l»lani<,  -  19  53 

13,374  Feet  1  inch  Black  Waiaui  Boards,         -  930  18 

Ash  Logs: 
273  Cubic  Feet  Ash  Logs,  -  -  87  36 

Ash: 

2S7  Feet  5  inch  Ash  Plank,  -  -  1 1   4S 

4,268  Feet  4  inch  Ash  Plank,  -  -  170  72 

21,884  Feet  3  inch  A^sh  Plank,  -  -  875  36 

2,6^7  Feet  2i  inch  Ash  Plank,  -  -  107  48 

6,249  Feet  2  inch  Ash  Plank,  -  -  249  96 

18,015  Feet  U  inch  A-;h  Plank,  -  -  720  60 

30,834  Feet  Tinch  Ash  Boards,  -  -  1,233  36 

Elm: 

6,555  Feet  4  inch  Elm  Plank,  -  -  327  75 

20,480  Feet  3  inch  Elm  Plank, 

276  Feet  2  inch  Elm  Plank, 
1,599  Feet  1.^  inch  Elm  Plank, 

271   Feet  1  inch  Elm  Boards, 
9,595  Feet  |  inch  Elm  Boards, 

Cypress: 

5,879  Feet  1|  inch  Cypress  Plank,      - 
45,423  Feet  1  inch  Cypress  Boards, 
4(),291    Feet  f  inch  Cypress  Boards, 

2,256  Feet  ^  inch  Cypress  Boards, 

Elm  Gun  Carriage  Timber: 
1,524  Feet  Elm  Gun  Carriage  Timber,  -  99  06 

Merchantable  White  Pine: 

2,254  Feet  3  inch  Merchantable  White  Pine  Plank,  67  62 

15,549  Feet  2  inch  M'^rchantable  White  Pine  Plank,  466  47 

21,790  Feet  1.^  inch  Merchantable  While  Pine  Plank,  653  70 

1,120  Feet  1  inch  Merchantable  White  Pine  Board.s,  33  60 

Clear  White  Pine: 
856  Feet  5  inch  Clear  While  Pine  Plank,  36  39 

28,592  Feet  4  mch  Clear  While  Piue  Plank,  1,215  16 


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13 

80 

79 

95 

13 

55 

479 

75 

235 

16 

1,816 

92 

1,851 

64 

90 

24 

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28,434  Feet  3  inch  Clear  White  Pine  Plank,  1,208  45 

92,562  Feet  2  inch  Clear  White  Piue  Plank,  3,933  88 

112,730  Feet  Ih  inch  Clear  White  Pine  Plank,  4,791   03 

28,073  Feet  11  inch  Clear  White  Pnie  Plank,  1,218  60 

64,793  Feet  1  inch  Clear  White  Pine  Boards,  2,753  70 

48,642  Feet  f  inch  Clear  While  Pine  Boards,  2,067  28 

Oar  Rafters: 

1,484  Oar  Rafters,        ....  1,484  00 

Capstan  Bars: 

322  Capstan  Bars,     -             -            -            -  634  34 

Hickory  Butts: 

51  Hickory  Butts,  -            -            -            -  127  50 

Locust: 

1,096  Cubic  Feet  Locust  Timber,        -            -  1,370  00 

Keel  Pieces: 
22,237  Cubic  Feet  Keel  Pieces,  -  -         12,230  35 

Rudder  Stocks: 

3,715  Cubic  Feet  Rudder  Stock,          -            -  2,229  00 

In  Mast  House: 

For  Line  of  Battle  Ships: 

Main,  Fore  and  Mizen  Masts  and  Bowsprits,  9,068  99 
1  Topmast,  2  Topsail  Yards,  2  Topmast  Yards,      183  35 

1  Topmast,              -            -            -            -  126  00 

For  Frigates: 

3  Topsail  Yards  and  2  Topmasts,                -  182  40 

1  Jibboom  and  1  Spanker  lioom,  -  -  90  00 
3  Pole  Topgallant  Masis,  3  Topsail  Masts,  95  00 
6  Topgallant  Yards,  3  Gatls,           -             -  70  00 

2  Swinging  Booms,  3  Slump  Topgallant  Masts,  45  00 
5  Royal  Yards,  2  Whiskers,  -  -  30  00 
1  Dolphin  Striker,  4  Topmast  S.  S.  Booms,  54  00 
1  Flying  Jibboom,  4  Topgallant  S.  S.  Booms,  17  00 
1  Set  Studding  Sail  Yards,  -  -  20  00 
1  Mizzeu  Mast,       -            •            •            •  60S  40 


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1  Bowsprit,              -            -            -            -  893  40 

1  Bowsprit  Cap,      -             -             -             -  20  00 

2  Half  Main  Yards,  4  Half  Topsail  Yards,  525  32 
1  Topmast,  2  Topgidlant  Masts,  -  -  83  36 
I   Mizen  Topsail  Yard,        -             -             -  1 1  00 

3  Lower  Trestletreo.s,          -             -             -  20  00 


For  2d  Class  Frigates: 
1  Foremast, 


725  00 


For  Sloops: 

2  Topmasts,  I  Topsail  Yard, 

2  Stuinp  and  3  Pole  Topgallant  Masts, 

1  Trysail  Mast,  5  Topgallant  S.  S.  Masts, 

2  Gaifs,  2  Topmasts  S.  S.  Booms, 

4  Topgallant  and  3  Royal  Yards,   - 

5  Topmasts,  spare, 

4  Topmasts,  -  -  -       '' 

1  Half  Lower  Yard,  1  Jibboom, 

2  Foremasts, 

2  Mizen  Masts,  1  Bowsprit, 

For  Brigs: 

2  Lower  and  2  Topsail  Yards, 

I  Topgallant  and  1  Royal  Yard,     - 
1  Main  Boom,  2  Caffs, 

1  Jibboom,  1  Flying  Jibboom, 

3  Topmasts,  I  Top, 

2  Swinging  Booms,  1  Topgallant  Mast, 

6  Spruce  Poles, 
I  Sprnce  Pole, 

1  Spruce  Spar,  5  inch, 

4  Spruce  Spars,  26  inch, 
4  Spruce  Poles, 

6  Spruce  Poles, 

1  Spruce  Spar,  4  inch, 

1  Spruce  Pole, 

1  Spruce  Spar,  17  inch, 

4  S|)ruce  Poles, 

4  Spruce  Pea  Slicks, 

4  Sprnce  S|)arp,  28  inch,     - 

7  Spruce  Poles, 

1  Spruce  Npar,  8  inch, 
1  Spruce  Pule, 
71 


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52 

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21 

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44 

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30 

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250  00 

250 

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134 

96 

563 

80 

151 

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20 

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10 

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25 

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Boats  on  Hand: 

Barge,  old, 

Cutter,  old, 

Laiiru'h,  old. 

Launch,  old,        ... 

Barge,  old, 

Launch,  old,        .  .  - 

Launch,  old,        .  .  - 

Cutter,  old, 

Cutter,  old, 

Cutler,  half  finished, 

Cutior,  old. 

Whale  Boat,  old, 

Launch,  old,        ... 

Cutter,  old,  ... 

Cutter,  old,  .  .  . 

Whale  Boat,  half  finished, 

Launch,  old. 

Cutler,  (Ad, 

Cuiter,  old. 

Whale  Boat,  old, 

Floating  Water  Engine  Boat,  old, 

Launch,  old, 

Whale  Boat,  old. 

Gig,  old, 

Gig,  old. 

Gig,  old. 


100  00 

loO  00 

600 

00 

400 

00 

200 

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500  00 

400 

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200  00 

350 

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200 

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150 

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200 

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350  00 

200  00 

150 

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125 

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600 

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200 

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200 

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150 

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300  00 

75 

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60 

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50 

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200 

00 

150  00 

$701,193 

11 

WM.  H.  PETERS,  Com'r. 
Navy  Yard,  Gosportf  Oct.  10,  1861. 


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Miscellaneous  Articles  on  hand  30th  June,  1861. 


A  quantity  of  -Rougli  Dressed  Stone, 

valued  at  9,607  66 

A  quantity  of  Rough  Stone,  valued  at  2,422  31 

A  quantity  of  Slate,  valued  at  7,822  17 


Medicines  and  Medical  Stores  at  Hos- 
pital, •  5,600  00 

Medicines  and  Medical  Stores  at  Navy 

Yard,  579  06 


19,852  14 


— 6,079  06 

$25,931  20 

WM.  H.  PETERS,  Com'r. 
Navy  Yard,  Gosport,  Va.  Oct.  19,  1861. 


116  [Doc.  No.  40.] 


REPORT 

Of  Provisions,  Clothing  and  Small  Stores  on  hand  at  the 
Gosport  Nacy  Yard  30th  June,  1S61,  and  turned  over  for  the 
iise  of  the  Confederate  States. 


Provisions: 

11,089  lbs.  Bread,          -             -             -            -  443  56 

991  bbls.  Beef,           ....  15,856  00 

674  bbls.  Pork,          ....  13,480  OU 

44.^  bbls.  Flour,        -            -            -             -  289  25 

854  lbs.  Rice,            ....  38  43 

5,012  lbs.  Dried  Apples,           ...  338  31 

2,394  lbs.  Pickles,        -             -            -            -  119  TO 

684  lbs.  Sugar,          ....  56  43 

270  lbs.  Tea,             -             -            -            -  91  80 

585  lbs.  Coffee,         ....  99  45 

1,939  lbs.  Batter,         ...            -  562  31 

589  lbs.  Cheese,        -            -            -            -  106  02 

92  Gallons  Beans,  ...            -  15  64 

728  Gallons  Molasses,           -             -            -  291  20 

948^  Gallons  Vinegar,             .            .             -  142  28 

61 U  Gallons  AVhiskey,           -             -            -  189  57 

28,800  Rations  Mixed  Vegetables,          -            -  460  80 

3,865  Bread  Bags,       .            -             -             -  1,584  65 

Clothing: 

211  Pea  Jackets,        ....  1,92643 

2,022  Blue  Cloth  Round  Jackets,         -             -  12,738  60 

992  Blue  Flannel  Jumpers,               -            -  1,269  76 

1,942  Blue  Cloth  Trowsers,    -             -             -  6,797  00 

'9.37  Blue  Satinet  Trow5«ers,               -            -  2,155  10 

1,972  Canvas  Duck  Trowsers,              -             -  2,16^20 

1,937  Barnsley  Sheeting  Frocks,         -            -  2,169  44 

69  Blue  Flannel  Over  Sliirts,          -             -  100  74 

1,044  Blue  Flannel  Under  Shirts,        -             -  1,127  52 

341  Blue  Flannel  Drawers,               -            -  3.54  64 

4,822f  Yards  Blue  Flannel,                   -            -  1,929  10 

3, 130|-  Yards  Barnsley  Sheeting,           -       .      -  1,909  76 

4,620  Yards  Canvas  Duck,                   -             -  l,3b6  23 

3,292  Yards  Blue  Nankeen,                -           -.  313  74 


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1,501  Pairs  Calf  Skin  Shoes,  -  -  2,551  70 

1,017  Pairs  Kip  Skin  Shoes,  -  -  1,525  50 

4,704  Pairs  Woolen  Socks,       -  -  -  1 ,458  24 

178  Mattresses,          -             -  -  .  818  80 

1,728  Blankets,            -            -  -  .  3,162  24 

623  Blue  Cloth  Caps,            -  -  .  392  49 

350  Seamless  Caps,                -  -  .  318  50 

375  Black  Silk  Handkerchiefs,  -  -  375  00 

26  Pair  Linen  Trowsers,     -  -  -  17  42 

46  I'jxtra  Mattress  Covers,  -  -  24  84 

36  Gntta  Percha  .Jackets,  -  -  144  00 

45  Gutta  Percha  Trowsers,  -  -  112  50 

38  Gutta  Percha  Caps,         -  -  -  29  26 

96  Yards  Painted  Cloth,      -  -  .  48  00 

935  Yards  Burlaps,                -  -  .  149  60 

Small  Stores: 

12,306  lbs.  Tobacco,     -  -  .  . 

4,485  lbs.  Salt  Water  Soap,      - 

100  lbs.  Beeswax,     -  -  .  . 

282.^  lbs.  White  Thread, 

200.^  lbs.  Black  Thread, 

426  Pieces  Ribbon, 

756  Pieces  White  Tape, 

394  Pieces  Black  Tape, 

60  Spools  Cotton, 

260  Pocket  Handkerchiefs,  - 

59  Papers  Needles, 

891  Thimbles,  .  .  .  . 

428  Jack  Knives,      .... 

197  Pairs  Scissors,    .... 

144  Razors,  .... 

121  Razor  Straps,      .  -  -  . 

26  Shaving  Boxes,  ... 

31  Shaving  Brushes, 

444  Cakes  Soap,       .... 

169  Scrub  Brushes, 

202  Blacking  Brushes, 

14  Dozen  Eiii^le  Buttons,  large, 

126  Dozen  Medium  Buttons, 

272  Dozen  E;igle  Buttons,    - 

2,955  Dozen  Dead  Eye  Buttons, 

407  Fine  Combs,      .... 

228  Coarse  Combs, 

164  Mess  Kettles,      .... 

120  Mess  Pans,         .... 


2,830  38 

224  25 

28  00 

240  13 

170  42 

268  38 

18  90 

7  88 

2  25 

31  20 

89 

8  91 

98  44 

29  65 

33  12 

16  94 

6  76 

4  65 

13  32 

28  73 

32  32 

3  92 

34  02 

43  52 

29  55 

01  05 

47  88 

164  00 

66  OU 

118  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

1,058  T^in  Pots,           .            .  .            . 

559  Tin  Pans,           .             .  -             . 

37  Spoons,              .            .  -            - 
2,897  B.ittles  Mustard, 

324  Bottles  Pepper,  .            -  -            - 

324  Boxes  Blacking, 

2,200  Hands  Grass,      .             -  .             - 

Miscellaneous  or  Contingent  Account: 

10,lS5f  lbs.  Candles,    -            -  -            - 

6  Iron  Chests,       .             .  .             - 
743  Small  Store  Boxes, 
4  Sets  Paymasters'  Books. 


95 

22 

55 

90 

2 

22 

347 

64 

220  50 

14 

58 

65 

00 

2,648  30 

185 

00 

222  90 

$90,032  37 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


119 


REPORT 

Of  Articles  belonging  to  the  Light  House  Department,  on  hand 
June  30,  1861. 


Articles  from  Cape  Henry  Light  House: 

4  lOOGallm  Oil  Butts, 
ISO  Gallon>  Sperin.Oil, 
3  Mechanical  Lan)ps,  2(J  order, 
1  Oil  Ft-eder,  .... 

1  R<Mige  B"X,  -  -  -  . 

8  Burner  Brushes,    .... 
6  Machine  Brushes, 
1  Dusting  Brush,      .... 


Drill  and  Bit, 
Butf  Skin, 
Linen  Towels, 
Rod  Lamp, 
Oil  Cans,  small, 
Screw  Driver, 
Soldering  Iron, 


Articles  in  Light  House  Office: 


2  Carpets, 

3  Desks, 

1  Large  Table, 

4  Chairs, 

1  Stool, 

2  Presses,      ... 

3  Eight  Day  Clocks, 
3  24  Hour  Clocks, 

3  Ink  Stands, 

J  Coal  Scuttle  and  Fire  Set, 

2  Oleometers, 

1  Post  Office  Seal, 

2  Rod  Lamps, 

2  Vols.  Ures'  Dictionary, 

1  Vol.  Worcester's  Dictionary, 

1  Bryan's  Rncyclopafdia, 

1  Lot  Light  House  Blank  Books, 

1  Lithograph  Book,  not  valued, 


48  00 

270 

00 

\o 

00 

25 

25 

1 

75 

1 

50 

25 

1 

00 

1 

00 

1 

.50 

1 

00 

75 

25 

50 

5  00 


40  00 

10  00 

4  00 

50 

20  00 

36  00 

15  00 

1  50 

75 

10  00 

2  .50 

2  m 

10  00 

6  (K) 

4  (K) 
25  00 


120  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

1  Box  Charts,  not  valued, 

5  Engravings  of  Leiizes,       ... 

1  Seal  Press,  .... 

1  Oil  Stone,  .... 

1  Lot  Books,  upon  various  subjects, 

1  liOt  Stationery,  6cc. 

1  Quadrant,  anJ  2  Hour  Glasses,     - 

1  Tap,  and  Set  of  Dies, 

5  Flexible  Brushes, 

19  Chimney  Brushes, 
10  Paint  Brushes,        .... 

1  Sash  Brush,  -  .  .  - 

23  Whitewash  Brushes, 
34  Scrub  Brushes,       .... 

4  Wolf's  Head  Brushes, 

28  Burner  Brushes,     -  -  -  . 

20  Hand  Dusting  Brushes,     - 

29  Sweeping  Brushes, 

10  Feather  Brushes,  .  _  . 

IS  Ship  Scrapers,        .  .  .  . 

5  Slates,        .  .  .  .  . 

24  Dozen  Towels,  .... 
9  Buff  Skins,  .... 

4  Vols.  Patent  Olfice  Reports,  not  valued, 

30  Pairs  Scissors,  .... 
3  Putty  Knives,  .... 
1  Black  Walnut  Extensiou  Table, 

1  ]3ozea  Letter  Portfohos,     - 

5  Bottles  Ink,  .... 
9  Large  Blank  Books, 

2  Boxes  Yellow  Soap,  162  lbs. 
5  Boxes  Yellow  Soap,  200  lbs. 
.^  Medicine  Chests, 

1  Mortise  Lock,         .... 
1  Saw,  ..... 

1  Hatchet,     ....  - 

1  Shovel,       ..... 

2  Spirit  Levels,  .... 
1   Cord  Box,  .... 

1  Lot  1st  Order  Block  Cord, 
5  Coils  Cotton  Block  Cord,  -  -  10  00 

20  Quires  Blank  Forms,  not  valued, 
7  Coast  Survey  Reports,  not  valued. 

Letter  Books,  Ottice  Archives,  Correspondence 
from  1852  to  1861. 

2  Fog  Horns,  ....  50 
1  Fountain  and  Lamp  Reflector,      -            -                 5  00 


1  00 

3  50 

10 

5  00 

2  50 

5  00 

2  50 

50 

4  50 

5  00 

25 

9  50 

4  50 

1  00 

7  00 

5  00 

8  70 

2  50 

9  00 

1  50 

72  00 

9  00 

7  50 

75 

7  50 

10  00 

1  00 

72  00 

6  48 

8  00 

30  00 

1  00 

50 

50 

50 

5  00 

50 

5  00 

[Doc.  No.  40.] 


121 


Articles  in  old  Custom  House: 

1  Jones'  Fog  Bell,  1,500  lbs. 

1  Jones'  Fog  Bell,  broken,  500  lbs. 
5  100  Gallon  Oil  Butts, 

11  .50  Gallon  Oil  Bntts, 

.3  30  Gallon  Oil  Bntts, 

2  40  Gallon  Oil  Butts, 
1  Cask  Oil,  87  gall-nis, 
1  Cask  Oil,  95  gallons, 

1   Cask  Oil,  110  i?allons, 

1   Cask  Oil,  81  gallons, 

1   Cask  Oil,  79  gallons, 

1   Cask  Oil.  92^alIons, 

1  Cask  Oil,  40  gallons— 590  gallons, 

Amounting  to 

1  bbl.  Oil,  40  gallons, 

1  bbl.  Oil,  28  gallons— 08  gallons, 

Amounting  to 

1    Bntt  '^il  containing  20  gallons,  not  full, 

1   Buit  Oil  containing  25  gallons, 

1   Bntt  Oil  containing  25  yall"ns, 

1   Bnlt  Oil  containing  15  gallons, 

1   Bntt  Oil  containing  15  gallons, 

1    Bntt  Oil  cont:iiiiini(  90  gallons, 

1    Bntt  Oil,  full,  100  gallons, 

1   Butt  Oil,  full,  100  gallons, 

1  Butt  Oil,  containing  25  gallons, 

1  Butt  Oil,  containing  HI  gallons, 

1   Butt  Oil,  containing  20  gallons, 

1  Butt  Oil,  containing  20  gallons, 

1  Bntt  Oil,  containing  20  gallons, 

1   Butt  Oil,  containing    3  gallons, 

488  gallons,  amounting  to 
1  Butt  Drip  Oil,  80  gallons, 

3  Brass  Hand  Pumps, 

4  Tin  Hand  Pumps, 

1   Lot  Yellow  Metal,  2,000  lbs. 
1   Copper  Chimney, 

5  Iron  Dav  Marks, 

1  Lot  Old  Copper,  50  lbs.      - 
1  Lot  Wrought  Iron,  2,000  lbs. 
1  Rotary  Oil  Pump  and  Hose, 
ID  Oil  Cans,  -  -  ' 

1  Light  Boat  Wrench, 

6  Large  Oil  Casks, 
3  Small  Oil  Casks, 

72 


600  00 
100  00 
60  00 
82  50 
22  50 
15  00 


885  GO 


102  00 


732  00 

60  00 

7  50 

1  00 

200  00 

60  0(J 

25  00 

10  00 

20  0(\ 

30  00 

2  00 

15  00 


00 
60 


122  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

10  Oil  Carriers,  .            .            .            . 

1  Chioken  Coop,  .... 

7  Tar  Brushes,  .... 
1  Lot  Bricks,  .... 

600  lbs.  Wrought  Iron  Buoy  Shackles, 

4  Mooring  Swivels  and  Shackles^  600  lbs.    - 
500  lbs.  Black  Paint,    -  -  -  - 

18  Sheets  Copper,  4  lbs.  each,  72  lbs. 

12  Sheets  Yellow  Metal,  3  lbs.  each,  36  lbs. 

1   Saw,  ..... 

20  lbs.  Putty,  .... 

1  Lot  Pinch  Bars  and  Cant  Hooks, 

2  l^itch  Pots,  .... 
2  Augers,       .             -  .  .  . 

5  Draw  Buckets,       .  .  .  - 
500  Yards  Lamp  Wicks, 

2  Pairs  Scales,  - 

60  lbs.  Polishing  Rouge,         ... 
31   lbs.  Chrome  Yellow, 
40  lbs.  Spanish  Whiting, 

4  Sets  Measures,       .... 
12  Gallons  Spirits  Wine, 

9  Cans,         ..... 

1  Tool  Chest  and  Lot  Tools, 

2  Axes,  ..... 
1  Hand  Saw,  -  .  - 

1  Rigging  Screw,      .... 

3  Soldering  Irons,     .  .  .  . 
1  Monkey  Wrench,                ... 

,      1  Parlor  Stove  and  Pipe, 

240  Dozen  1st,  2d,  4th,  5th  and  6th  Order  of  Chim- 
neys, .... 

8  Dozen  Rod  Lamp  Chimneys, 

360  Dozen  Lamp  Wicks,  -  -  - 

30  Dozen  Costan  Lamp  Chimneys,    - 

1  Lot  Hoop  [ron,       .... 

1  Brass  Bucket,         .... 
23  Brass  Cocks,  .... 

2  Oil  Strainers,  .... 

31  Air  Cocks,  .... 
I  Old  Brass  Lamp,   -  -  -  - 

5  Lighting  Lanterns, 

3  Large  Plates  Glass, 

10  Plates  Double  Thick  Glass, 

12  Plates  French  Double  Thick  Glass, 

16  Panes  Glass,  12x14, 

23  Panes  Glass,  10x12, 


8  00 

5 

00 

50 

1 

00 

60 

00 

120 

00 

30 

00 

20 

16 

7 

20 

50 

80 

5 

00 

3 

00 

50 

2 

50 

10 

00 

3 

00 

24 

00 

6 

20 

4 

00 

5 

00 

3 

60 

2 

25 

30 

00 

1 

50 

1 

00 

7 

00 

1 

50 

1 

00 

4 

00 

240  00 

8 

00 

10 

so 

30 

00 

4  00 

1 

00 

69  00 

4 

00 

31 

00 

2  00 

1 

50 

75 

00 

40  00 

60  00 

[Doc.  No   40.] 


123 


50  Panes  Glass,  7x19, 
50  Panes  Glass,  81x9.V, 
60  Panes  Glass,  8x10, 

ISO  Panes  amounting  to 
16  Panes  Double  Thick  Glass,  9x11, 

1   Piece  Copper  Lightnins:  Rod, 

1   Shovel,       -  -       "■      - 

1  Sweeping  Brush, 

1  Wolf's  Head  Brush, 

1  Globe  Lantern,       .  .  .  . 

1  Copper  Wire  Lightning  Rod, 
175  lbs.  Spikes  and  Nails, 

2  Lantern  Wenches, 

3  Hawsers,         ,       - 

1  Lot  of  old  Blocks  and  Falls, 
1  Lot  of  Gunny  Bags, 

6  Oil  Casks,  .... 

7  Oil  Breakers,  -  .  .  . 
1  Lot  of  Cast  Iron,  400  lbs. 

1  Set  of  Hand  Rails,  iron. 
Stanchions  and  Ladder,     - 

2  Old  Wrought  Iron  Water  Tanks, 

1  Spade,        ----- 
1  Hoe,  -  .  -  .  . 

1  Pump  Brake  and  Rod, 
6  Pairs  Side  Steps, 

2  Grindstones, 

2  Devil's  Claws, 

8  Buoy  Straps  and  Bands,    - 

4  Grapnell  Irons, 

2  (composition  Lanterns,  belonging  to  Light  Boats, 
100  lbs.  Copper  and  Brass, 

20  lbs.  Copper  Spikes  and  Bolts, 
1  Lot  of  Chain  and  rigging, 
4  Lantern  Runners  and  Chains  for  Light  Boats, 

50  lbs.  Oakum, 
1  Lot  of  Spun  Yarn,  10  lbs. 
1  Binnacle,  .  .  .  . 

1  Lot  of  Patterns  for  Castings, 
6  Jugs,  .... 

1  Lot  Paint  Kegs,     .  -  -  - 

1  Bung  Borer,  .  .  .  - 

1  Boat,  .  .  .  .  - 

1  Light  House  Lantern,  Deck,  of  Cast  Iron, 

2,000  lbs. 
4  Cast  Iron  Stops,  old,  280  lbs. 
1,000  lbs.  Wrought  Iron, 


18  90 

,3 

20 

5 

00 

50 

25 

25 

75 

15 

00 

8 

75 

100  00 

00 

100 

00 

20 

00 

?, 

00 

?, 

50 

2 

00 

35 

00 

100  00 

50 

60 

1 

50 

10 

00 

5 

00 

2  00 

24 

00 

kO 

00 

50 

00 

20  00 

4 

00 

150 

00 

10 

00 

3 

25 

1 

50 

10  00 

3 

00 

2 

50 

60 

20 

00 

100  00 

4 

20 

10  00 

124 


[Doc.  No.  40.1 


1  Cast  Iron  Weight,  1.000  lbs.  -  -  .'5  00 

1  Piece  Chain,  130  fathoms,  1.V  inch,  16,SS7  lbs. 
1  Piece  Chain,  90  fathoms,  ll  inch,  11,700  lbs. 
1  J*iece  Chain,  30  fiithonis,  1|  inch,  2,861  lbs. 
1  Piece  Chain,  120  fathoms,  1  inch,  7,612  lbs, 
10  Buoy  Chains,  f  irward, 
1   Piece  Chain,  I J  inch,  ,3,360  lbs. 

1  Buoy  Chain,  .\  inch  1,800  lbs. 

44,250  lbs.  amounting  to     2,212  50 

2  Pairs  Cant  Hooks,  -  -  -  ' 
1  Lot  liUmber,  tfcc. 
1  Copper  Cutting  JMachine,  of  iron, 

1  Lot  of  Mast  Hoops, 

2  Lots  Hatcii  Covers, 
10  lbs.  Soldc^r,  .... 

1  5tli  Order  Lenze, 
1  6th  Order  Lenze, 

1  6th  Order  Lenze  and  Accessories, 

2  4th  Order  While  Plashes  and  Clonic  Machine, 
1  2d  Order  Lenze  and  Af'cessories  complete, 

1  4tii  Order  Lenze  and  Accessories  complete, 

2  Steamers'  Lenzes  and  Stand, 
1  5th  Order  Lenze  Pedestal,  tkc. 
1  4th  Order  Lenze  Pedf-.sial, 
1  5th  Order  Lenze,  2  Flashes  and  Clock  Machine, 

10  Rod  Lamps,  .... 

y  4th  Order  Franklin  Lamps, 

3  Moderator  Lamps, 
1   1st  Order  Lantern  complete, 

4  Costan  Lamps,       .  .  .  . 
3  Hydratdic  Lamps,               -      ,       - 
6  Fountain  Lamps  and  Burners,  4th  order, 
1   Hand  Lenze,          .             .             .  _ 
1  Fountain  l^amp,    -             -             -             - 

10  Buoy  Chains,  7  fathoms  each,  5,000  lbs.  150  00 


1 

50 

30 

00 

10 

00 

3 

00 

;") 

00 

1 

00 

.^00 

00 

300 

00 

300 

00 

75 

00 

5,000 

00 

250 

00 

120 

00 

350 

00 

.500 

00 

600 

00 

10 

00 

W 

00 

3 

00 

4,000 

00 

200 

00 

.3 

00 

60 

.00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

Articles  at  St.  Helena: 

11  2d  Class  Iron  Nun  Buoys  complete, 
6  2d  Class  Iron  Can  Buoys  complete, 
3  1st  Class  Iron  Can  Buoys  comj)lete, 

13  Spar  Buoys, 
3  2d  Class  Iron  Sinkers, 
1  1st  Class  Iron  Sinker, 
1  1st  Class  Iron  Ballast  Ball, 
3  3d  Class  Iron  Ballast  Balls, 
9  Stone  Sinkers, 


1,815  00 

1,110  00 

1,0.50  00 

260  00 

9  00 

4  00 

2  50 

3  00 

67  50 


[Doc.  No.  40.]  125 

200  lbs.  Wrought  Iron,  -  "      „     '  oq?  nn 

110  Spar  l3iioys  Straps  and  Bands,  3,850  lbs.  c5S.^  Ul) 

$25,283  59 
»»  

WM.  H.  PETERS, 

Conwiissioticr. 

Navy  Yard,  Go!>port,  Oct.  19,  1861. 


126  [Doc.  No.  40.] 


Recapitulation  of  Paper  D. 


Ordnance  and  Ordnance  Stores,          -             -  341,536  S3 

Miscellaneous  Ariicles  in  ilie  various  Store  Houses,  7.")3.()00  83 

Timber  and  Timber  Materials  and  Spars,        -  G'.tl,. "11:53  11 

Hoats,               .....  r).r>(3()  00 

Stone  and  Granite,       ....  19,So2  14 

Medicines  and  Medical  Stores,             -             -  6,079  06 

Provisions,       .....  34,165  40 

Clotbiiig,         .....  47,474  35 

Small  Stfires  and  Contingent,               -             -  8,392  62 

Miscellaneous  Articles  in  Light  House  Department,  25,283  59 


$1,937,667  93 


[Doc.  No.  40.J  127 


E. 


REPORT 

OF  DISBURSEMENTS  IN  MONEY  FROM  THE  21ST  OF  APRIL  TO 
THE  30TH  JUNE,  1861. 


Report  of  Dishurscmcnis  at  the  Naval  Station,  Notfo//:,  from 
the  2\st  April,  IS()1,  to  the  'SOth  June,  18G1,  bi/  the  Loinnion- 
wealth  of   Vir<zinia. 


Disbursed  hy  George  Loyall,  Esq  ,  Navy  Agent, 

iNorfulk,              ....  17,767  73 

By  Pnvniaster  R.  Taylor,      -             -             -  7,543  95 

By  Paymaster  W.  H.'  Peters,             -             -  102,050  99 


$127,361  68 


WM.  H.  PETERS,  Com'r. 
Navy  Yard,  GoSjwrt,  Va.,  Sept.  20, 1861. 


128 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


F. 


GENERAL  RECAPITULATION. 


Paper  "A," 

Paptr  "B," 

Paper  "C," 

Paper  "D," 

Paper  "E," 


r.         J  J  r        lOn  hand  July  1, 

n    u      1  ni  *   I  Expcnnen  from  ,„,,,        ,.     •     J 

On  hand  21st   i    .„'      ,     .,  18bl,  and  tunica 

1      -1    lofli       ■    -1'^'  April  to  .    i^      r   1 

April,  18b  1.     jo,  .1    T         ,o<!i   over  to  (.  unlede- 


4,810,056  68 
2,497,130  92 


559,588  85 
127,361  68 


4,8in,056  68 
1,937,667  93 


$7,307,187  60  i   ^686,900  53  |  $6,747,724  61 


WM.II.  PETERS;  Com'r. 
I^avy  Yard,  Gosport,  Oct.  19,  1861. 


[Doo.  No.  40.]  129 


INVENTORY 


OP 


MUSKET      MA.CHINEIIY, 


TAKEN  AT 


HARPER'S   FERRY, 


AND  NOW  IN  THE 


MMOPiY  AT  RICHMOND. 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


131 


Components  received  from  Harper's  Ferry  up  to  September  1,  1861. 


RIFLE  MUSKET,  MODEL  1855. 

No. 

Price. 

Amount. 

Tips  for  Stocks : 

1  c.  m. 

Cast, 

1,582 

0  02  5 

|139  65 

Various  stages. 

518 

0  06  6 

33  67 

Polished, 

1,074 

0  13  0 

139  62 

Tip  Screws: 

Finished, 

2,077 

0  04  0 

83  08 

Polished, 

564 

0  04  4 

28  77 

Stocks : 

Complete, 

2,084 

1  21  0 

2,521  64 

Various  stages. 

1,309 

0  60  0 

785  40 

Rough,             -                 -                 : 

30,600 

0  32  2 

9,853  20 

Butt  Plates: 

Forged, 

426 

0  08  0 

34  00 

Various  stages. 

293 

0  18  5 

54  20 

Butt  Plate  Screws: 

Forged, 

1,400 

0  01   1 

15  40 

Various  Stages, 

2,070 

0  02  0 

41  40 

Polished, 

2,192 

0  04  0 

87  68 

Guard  Plates: 

Forged,            ... 

1,158 

0  05  8 

67  16 

Various  stages. 

813 

0  17  0 

138  21 

Polished, 

72 

0  35  0 

25  20 

Guard"  Bow  Xuts: 

Forged, 

300 

0  04  0 

1  20 

Various  stages. 

2,086 

0  05  0 

10  43 

Guard  Bows: 

Forged, 

111 

0  06  4 

7  10 

Various  stages. 

1,885 

0  13  0 

245  05 

Polished, 

42 

0  27  0 

11   34 

Swivels : 

Forged, 

1,003 

9  02  0 

20  06 

Various  stages, 

2,187 

0  08  9 

85  29 

Finished, 

934 

0  07  9 

73  78 

Triggers : 

Forged, 

1,975 

0  02  1 

41   47 

Varioa"*  stages, 

1,099 

0  06  0 

65  <M 

Trigger  Screws : 

Forged, 

1,475 

0  03  0 

4  42 

Polished, 

1,142 

0  01  0 

11  42 

Guard  Screws: 

Forged, 

4,094 

0  01  1 

45  03 

Various  stages. 

6,630 

0  01  7 

112  71 

Sight  Base: 

Forged, 

7,786 

0  05  2 

404  82 

Various  stages, 

33 

0  12  0 

3  96 

First  Leaf: 

Forged,            ... 

9,321 

0  13  4 

124  (M) 

Various  st»gM, 

1,478 

0  07  0 

103  46 

132 


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RIFLE  MTSKET,  MODEL  1855. 


Second  Leaf: 
Forpcd, 
Various  Stapes, 
Base  Screw  8 : 
Forgrd, 
Various  stages 
Joint  Screws : 
Forped, 
Various  stages, 
Breech  Screws: 
Forged, 
Various  stages, 
Finislicd, 
Cones : 

Forped, 
Various  stages, 
Tempered, 
Vent  Screws : 
Forged. 
Polished, 
Barrel  Plates : 
Drawn, 
Curved, 
Barrel  Plates  lor  rolling 
Cut, 
Curved, 
Barrels : 

Welded, 
Conescated, 
Various  stages, 
Tang  Screws : 
Forged, 
Various  stages, 
Polished, 
Upper  Bands : 
Forged, 
Various  stages. 
Middle  Bands: 
Forged, 
Various  stages, 
Lower  Bands: 
Forged, 
Various  stages. 
Polished, 
Band  Springs: 
Forged, 
A'arious  stages, 
Polisiicd, 
Lock  Pliites : 
Forged, 
Various  stages, 
Polished, 
Hammers : 

Forged,' 
Various  stages, 
Polidhod, 


7,169 
l,8(fi 

1.8»6 


832 
460 

1,376 
557 
286 

10,308 
6,673 
1.694 


2,895 


0  06  9 


0  06  9 
0  01  0 

0  06  3 
0   10  0 

0  32  0 

0  01  6 
0  02  0 
0  06  0 


0  01  8 


1,400 
349 

0  90  0 
0  94  0 

1,260  00 
328  06 

2,598 
548 

1  03  0 
1  05  0 

2,675  94 
676  40 

814 
4,258 
5,728 

1  26  0 
1  34  0 
1  01  U 

1,025  64 
6,705  72 
9,222  08 

438 

608 

1,132 

0  01  0 
0  02  5 
0  03  0 

4  88 
15  20 
83  96 

2,054 
285 

0  03  0 
0  06  0 

61  62 
17  10 

1,035 
808 

0  06  0 
0  08  5 

62  10 

68  68 

1,878 
787 
370 

0  03  0 
0  06  5 
0  11  0 

41  34 
43  28 
40  70 

3,821 

1,666 

211 

0  08  0 
0  04  0 
0  08  0 

114  63 
66  64 
16  88 

1,699 

2,790 

42 

0  10  0 
0  30  0 
0  93  6 

169  90 

837  00 

39  27 

491 

4,491 

578 

0  09  6 
0  20  0 
0  65  0 

47  13 
898  20 
317  90 

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133 


RIFLE  MUSKET,  MODEL  1855. 

No. 

Price. 

Amount. 

Tumbler  Screws : 

t  c.  m. 

Forfced, 

2,132 

0  06  9 

14  71 

rolishcd, 

130 

0  25  3 

3  28 

Tumblers : 

Forped, 

3,318 

0  59  4 

197  08 

Various  stages, 

787 

0  12  0 

94  44 

Tempered, 

1,057 

0  35  1 

871  00 

Lock  Screws: 

Forged, 

4,050 

0  04  0 

10  20 

Sear  Screws: 

Various  stages, 

481 

0  01  0 

4  81 

Bridles : 

Forged, 

806 

0  19  5 

15  71 

Various  stages, 

761 

0  08  5 

64  68 

Finished, 

221 

0  17  0 

37  57 

Sear  Spring  Screws : 

Various  stages, 

224 

0  01  0 

2  24 

Sears : 

Forged, 

3,984 

0  31  2 

93   10 

Tehipered, 

824 

0  15  9 

131  01 

Sear  Springs : 

Forged, 

1,161 

0  20  5 

23  59 

Various  stages, 

503 

0  06  0 

30  18 

Main  Springs : 

Forged, 

462 

0  07  2 

33  26 

Various  stages, 

653 

0  19  5 

127  33 

Magazine  Cover: 

Forged, 

1,272 

0  03  3 

41  97 

Various  stages. 

418 

0  13  5 

66  43 

Finished,     "     - 

142 

0  27  0 

38  34 

Magazine  Cover  Stud: 

Forged, 

1,380 

0  01  0 

13  80 

Various  stages, 

1,219 

0  02  0 

24  38 

Main  Spring  Swivel : 

Finished, 

250 

0  07  0 

17  50 

Feeding  ?'ingcrs: 

Forged, 

4,623 

0  09  1 

42  06 

Various  stages. 

847 

0  04  0 

33  88 

Feedinjr  FiiiL'fr  Screws: 

Fini'^licd, 

76 

0  01  0 

75 

Feeding  Finger  Springs : 

Tempered, 

1,804 

0  23  6 

42  57 

Magazine  Cover  Catch : 

Forged, 

488 

0  08  6 

4   19 

Various  stages. 

698 

0  03  0 

17  94 

Magazine  Cover  Catch  Screws : 

Polished, 

789 

0  01  0 

7  89 

Locks : 

Complete, 

1 

3  6.S  9 

3  fi3 

Side  Screw  Washers : 

Forged, 

1,168 

0  00  6 

5  79 

Side  Screws; 

Forged, 

4,673 

0  20  9 

97  fi6 

Various  stage". 

270 

0  02  6 

7  f<i 

PoliaLcd,          • 

968 

0  62  7 

61  01 

134 


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RIFLE  MUSKET,  MODEL  1855. 

No. 

Price. 

Amount. 

Ramrods : 

$   c.  m. 

Forged, 

2,047 

0  25  5 

|:.12  77 

Bayonets : 

Forged, 

671 

0  47  0 

208  37 

Various  stages. 

2,014 

0  75  0 

1,510  60 

Bayonet  Clasps: 

Various  stages. 

1,103 

0  12  0 

132  36 

Patch  Box  Cover: 

Forged, 

1,000 

0  04  6 

45  00 

Patch  Box  Tang: 

Forged, 

620 

0  04  2 

21   84 

Various  stages, 

1,446 

0  06  0 

86  76 

Patch  Box  Spring: 

Forged, 

2,870 

0  02  0 

67  40 

Tempered, 

200 

0  10  0 

20  00 

Patch  Box  Spring  Screws : 

Finished, 

377 

0  02  0 

7  54 

Patch  Box  Bolster: 

Finished, 

818 

0  06  9 

66  44 

Patch  Boxes: 

Assembled, 

2,000 

0  26  2 

624  00 

Rifle  Musket: 

Model  1855,     - 

1 

- 

100  00 

Appenda^cx. 

Wipers: 

Forged, 

2,162 

0  03  5 

75  67 

Various  stages. 

440 

0  05  0 

22  00 

Screw  Driver  Wrench : 

Tempered, 

1,861 

0  10  3 

139   15 

Screw  Driver  Blades: 

Forged, 

539 

0  02  2 

11  85 

Various  stages. 

1,130 

0  08  0 

33  90 

Screw  Driver  Collets: 

Forged, 

8,000 

0  01  6 

4  80 

Screw  Drivers: 

Complete, 

22 

0  24  6 

6  30 

Spring  Vice  Slide : 

Forged, 

242 

0  02  6 

6  29 

Spring  Vices: 

Complete, 

400 

- 

74  84 

Band  Spring  Punches : 

Forged, 

920 

0  04  7 

43  24 

$46,604  64 

i 


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135 


Components  received  from  Harper's  Ferry  up  to  September  1,  1861. 


PERCUSSION  MUSKET,  MODEL  1842. 

No. 

Price. 

Amount. 

Rod  Springs : 

$   c.  m. 

Tempered, 

856 

0  07  8 

$62  41 

Butt  Plates : 

Polished, 

1,449 

0  21  0 

304  29 

Guard  Plates; 

Polished, 

1,879 

0  28  0 

626  12 

Guard  Bows: 

Polished, 

1,660 

0  28  0 

464  80 

Swivels : 

Finished, 

6,094 

0  06  6 

396  11 

Triggers : 

Polished, 

949 

0  09  4 

89  20 

Guard  Screw  Tang  .- 

Polished,          ... 

896 

0  02  0 

17  92 

Breech  Screws: 

Cut, 

190 

0  10  6 

19  95 

Barrels : 

Finished, 

1,080 

8  66  0 

3,844  80 

Upper  Bands : 

Polished, 

892 

0  26  0 

223  00 

Middle  Bands: 

Polished, 

824 

0  21  0 

68  04 

Lower  Bands: 

Polished, 

2,194 

0  09  8 

216  01 

Upper  Band  Springs : 

Polished, 

977 

0  07  0 

68  39 

Middle  Band  Springs: 

Polished, 

870 

0  04  4 

38  28 

Lower  Band  Springs: 

Polished, 

800 

0  04  4 

36  20 

Lock  Plates: 

Finished,          ... 

2,499 

0  89  0 

974  61 

Hammers: 

Polished, 

730 

0  86  0 

266  60 

Tumblers: 

Tempered, 

877 

0  27  0 

236  79 

Sears: 

Polished, 

3,246 

0  14  6 

470  67 

Main  Springs: 

Polished, 

464 

0  25  0 

116  00 

Side  Plates : 

Polished, 

1,902 

0  06  8 

100  80 

Bayonet  Clasps : 

Finished, 

898 

0  14  0 

66  72 

Locks : 

Complete, 

6 

1  96  0 

11  70 

Screw  Drivers: 

Complete, 

2,706 

0  IS  0 

824  72 

136 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


PERCUSSION  MUSKET,  MODEL  1842. 


Cones  for  Altered  Musket: 

Tempered, 
Stocks: 

Finished, 
Bayonet*! : 

Model  1822,     • 


No. 


2,470 

2,736 

77 


Price. 


$  c.  m. 
0  04  3 

0  91  0 

1  00  0 


Amount. 


$106  21 

2,489  76 

77  00 

$11,693  00 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


137 


Machinery  received  from  Harper'n  Ferry  up  to  Sept.  lut,  1861. 


Latlu'  Tinniiip,  double  head, 

Iron  iiiul  Steel, 

Cutting  Scews,  vry  defecfivc, 

Cuitinp  Stows,  iron  stand, 

Lai  lie  Tu'iiing,  Imnd, 

Hock  Lahe,  very  defective, 

lion  Hand  Laihe, 

Lathe  Cutting  Screws,    - 

Cuiting  Saw  Teeth, 

Cii'tinp  Nuts. 

Drilling  Sundries,  large, 

Planing  Iron, 

Milling  and  Drilling, 

I'laning  Iron,  hand. 

Horizontal  Drilling, 

Drilling  Cones, 

Drilling  Cones, 

Second  Turning  Stocks, 

Second  Turning  Stocks, 

Planing  Iron,  small. 

Cutting  in  Hand  Springs, 

Till  Hammer, 

Tilt  Hammer  Rolling  Mill,  large,   - 

Stiiall  Planer, 

Machine  for  turning  Tonipions, 

Grooving  Rods, 

Spotting  Stocks, 

Facing  and  Cutting  to  Length, 

First  Turning  Stocks,     - 

Turning  Flats  and  Ovals, 

Turning  first  time, 

Turning  Flats  and  Ovals, 

Harrels  first  time, 

Horing  Barn  Is,  swift  speed. 

Smooth  Poring,  two  spindles, 

Milling  Muzzles  second  time, 

Fine  Horing.  four  spindles. 

Smooth  Poring,  two  spindles. 

Rough  Poring,  three  spindle*;. 

Rough  Boring,  three  spindles, 

Tilt  Hammer, 

Drilling  Machine, 

First  Boring  and  Turning  Bayonet, 

Rough  Boring,  throe  spindles, 

Snooth  Boring,  two  spindles, 

Smooth  Boring,  two  spindles. 

Parrels  First  Time  Turning, 

Barrels  Firf-t  Turned  First  Time, 

T4 


No. 


AmouDt. 


1 

$1,975  60 

2 

3  9  60 

3 

3^  5  00 

4 

149  4') 

5 

135  00 

7 

9  •  00 

8 

136  00 

9 

180  0') 

12 

243  00 

l:j 

223  20 

14 

720  00 

16 

795  04 

17 

360  00 

18 

279  00 

19 

124  2(> 

20 

79  20 

21 

57  6(» 

23 

479  ir. 

24 

90  8« 

26 

630  75 

27 

186  68 

29 

290  13 

30 

1,155  70 

3.5 

357  84 

36 

112  97 

38 

318  00 

42 

479  99 

43 

270  01  ► 

44 

621  81 

46 

367  29 

46 

545  31 

48 

438  57 

49 

609  18 

51 

320  00 

52 

310  5') 

53 

210  83 

64 

635  85 

56 

310  60 

66 

310  50 

57 

468  60 

69 

689  33 

61 

136  62 

62 

289  8.> 

63 

4fi7  45 

64 

310  60 

65 

810  60 

66 

600  I'i 

t7 

MS  M 

138 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


Cuttinp  Macliino,  double  head, 

CuttiiifT  Maeliino,  doiiMe  head, 

Cuttin^r  Machine,  siiiple  head. 

Cutting  Macliine,  single  liead. 

Cutting  Machine,  doul)K'  licad, 

Milling  Band  Spring  and  Swivels, 

Slitting  Screws, 

Milling  Points  and  Sliouldcrs  of  Side  Screws, 

Drilling  Sundries,  ... 

Punching  and  Turning, 

launching  and  Turning, 

Cutting  Machine,  har  stay, 

Cutting  ilachine,  single  head, 

Cutting  Machine,  bar  stay, 

Turning  I'pi^er  Hands, 

Turning  Middle  Bands, 

Milling  Tang  Screws,  swing  post. 

Mining  Breech  Plate  and  Guard  Bows'  Screws, 

Mining  Screws, 

Slitting  Lock  Screws, 

Milling  Guard  Bow  Nuts  and  Lock  Screw  Heads, 

Milling  Lock  Screws, 

Turning  Guard  Plate, 

Drilling,  tour  spindles,    - 

Tapping  Ramrods, 

Drilling  (iuard  Plates,  three  spindles, 

Drilling  Sundries,  one  spiinlle. 

Drilling  Sundries,  one  spindle, 

Tapping  Cones, 

Milling  Breech  Plate  Screws, 

Milling  Butt  Knd  of  Barrels, 

Lathe  Turning  Hand, 

Cutting  Macliine,  liar  stay. 

Milling  B.irrels  to  Length,  second  time. 

Cutting  Machine,  bar  siay. 

Spotting  Barrels  and  Drilling  Coneseats, 

Cutting  Machine,  bar  stay, 

Drilling  Coneseats,  four  spindles. 

Milling  Bayonet  Socket  to  Length, 

Machine  for  Cupping  Ramrods, 

(jrinding  Dies  and  Milling  Barrel  Muzzles,    - 

Lever  Press  for  Sundries, 

Milling  Muzzli's,  ^econd  time, 

Cutting  Macliine,  bar  stay, 

Size  J$oring  Bayonet, 

Turning  Bayonet  Clasps, 

Cutting  Machine,  bar  stay, 

Drilling  Bayonet  Clasps,  one  spindle, 

Milling  Lock  Plates, 

Milling  Breech  I'lates,     - 

Cutting  Machine,  single  head. 

Cutting  Machine,  single  head, 

Planing  Mnchine,  huge, 

Cutting  Trigger  Blades, 

Cutting  Machine,  bar  stay. 

Cutting  Machine,  single  head, 


No. 

Amouut. 

69 

$274  6 

70 

274  6 

71 

241  6 

72 

230  6 

78 

270  0 

74 

75  6 

75 

69  2 

76 

134  3 

77 

60  : 

78 

473  2 

79 

473  •_ 

81 

2i»5  ( 

82 

272  h 

63 

295  ti 

85 

330-5 

86 

345  3 

87 

180  ( 

88 

180  (] 

89 

176  4 

90 

166  G 

91 

97  b 

92 

9ii  fl 

93 

273  e 

94 

313  7 

ltd 

83  1 

96 

267  h 

98 

68  1 

99 

142  1 

102 

1<5  S 

105 

4  S 

1(»7 

193  '. 

108 

Iti7  1 

111 

299  ( 

115 

100  ^ 

117 

295  I 

119 

195  ^ 

118 

295  t 

120 

458  ] 

122 

2i'8  ( 

123 

183  r 

126 

180  t 

126 

135  ( 

127 

252  ' 

128 

295  t 

129 

176  i 

130 

220  h 

131 

295  ( 

133 

140  ( 

134 

137  1 

138 

252  ( 

139 

243  ( 

140 

244  1 

141 

608  ^ 

142 

180  ( 

143 

212  1 

144 

287  6 

[Doo.  No.  40.] 


139 


Cutting  Machine,  double  head, 

Cuttiiifi  Machine,  dout)le  head, 

Fly  Tress  Stam])iiiij  Lock  Plates, 

Jlilliiif:;  Screws,  single  head, 

Jlillinp;  Guard  Bows, 

Jtilling  Tunil)lers, 

Milling  Rods  and  Cones, 

Milling  Ramrods, 

Milling  and  Chanihering  Barrels, 

Milling  Magazine  Joints, 

Slugging  Hai-rels, 

Slugging  Barrels, 

I'unching  and  Trimming  Machine, 

Draw  Polishing  Machine, 

Sharpening  Saws, 

Sharpening  Saws, 

Cutting  Machine,  bar  stay. 

Cutting  Machine,  bar  stay. 

Rifling  Machine, 

Tilt  Hammer  Bayonet  Blades, 

CuttinjT  Machine,  bar  stay, 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Buff  Giinding  Bayonet, 
Drilling  Machine, 
Edging  Machine,  butt  plates. 
Drilling  Machine,  sundries, 
Cutting  Machine,  bar  .stav, 

Do.  do. 

Do.  '  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  double  head,  bar  stay. 

Do.  single  head,  bar  stay, 

Do.  double  head,  bar  star, 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Do.  do. 

Cutting  Coneseats  and  Bearing  Edgee, 
Drilling,  six  spindles, 
Rifling  Macliino, 
Jlitliug  Machine, 


No. 

Amount. 

145 

|296  62 

146 

295  62 

147 

72  0(» 

151 

274  64 

1.52 

411  83 

1.5.3 

232  2(t 

1.57 

180  00 

158 

254  07 

159 

290  07 

160 

81  65 

161 

262  67 

162 

262  68 

16.3 

136  80 

164 

1,579  99 

165 

31  86 

166 

29  70 

167 

295  62 

168 

295  62 

169 

557  17 

176 

793  31 

187 

295  62 

188 

295  62 

189 

295  62 

190 

295  62 

19.3 

297  12 

194 

299  85 

195 

3<'8  49 

196 

272  61 

2(i9 

91  58 

235 

180  00 

236 

360  00 

237 

180  Ci9 

240 

804  67 

241 

304  57 

242 

304  58 

243 

299  02 

244 

299  02 

245 

299  02 

246 

299  02 

247 

810  77 

948 

310  77 

249 

310  77 

250 

310  77 

251 

310  77 

252 

310  77 

253 

306  40 

254 

306  40 

255 

306  40 

266 

306  40 

267 

3()6  40 

268 

306  40 

259 

306  40 

262 

218  28 

263 

260  75 

264 

427  67 

266 

144  00 

140 


[Doc.  Ko.  40.] 


Ciittinp;  to  Length  and  Shaping  Butt?, 

Bcddiiiir  Guards,  .... 

Drilliufr  and  Tappinp  Stocks, 

Turniiif:  Bctwei'U  Bandit, 

Cuttiuf;  on  Band;*,  .... 

Bedding  Barrel,  .... 

Bedding  Locks,  .... 

Edging  Lock  Plates,       .... 

Beveling  Lock  Plates,    .... 

Milling  Magazine,  .... 

Tapping  Ramrods,  .... 

Hand  Latlie,  .... 

Engine  Lathe,  .... 

Cutting  Coneseats  for  Barrels, 

Killing  Machine,  .... 

Cutting  Gearing,  .... 

Boring  Barrels,  smooth, 

Tapping  Breech  Screws, 

Tapping  Ball  Screws  and  Guard  Bows, 

Tapi)ing  Barrels,  .... 

Drilling  Macliine,  .... 

Index  Cutting  Machine, 

Hand  Lathe,  small,         .... 

Engine  Lathe,  .... 

Milling  Butts  and  Chambering  Barrels, 

Killing  Machine,  .... 

Band  Lathe,  small  geared. 

Profiling  Machine,  stocks. 

First  Cutting  around  Coneseat,      ... 

Smooth  Boring  Machine, 

Milling  Bayonet  Blades,  ... 

Kew  Drill  Press,  four  spindles, 

Is'ew  Drill  Press,  four  spindles,       ... 

Clamp  Milling  Machine  for  Screws  Side  Rest, 

Kew  Milling  Machine, 

Do.  do.  -  -  -  - 

Stocking     do.  .... 

Killing  Machine,  in  progress, 
Machine  in  i)rogress,  legs  and  table. 
Head  and  Tail  jilocks  lor  Laihe,    - 
Wiper  Machine,  twistitig. 

Tilt  Hanuiier  Head,  .... 
Blast  Fan,  ..... 
Cast  Iron  Forges,  .... 

569  Hangers,  weighing  80  lbs.  each, 
409  feet  .vlain  Line  Shafting,  at  *4  per  foot, 
407  feet  Counter  Line  Shafting,  at  $i-l  per  foot, 
80  Machine  Fixtures,     -  - 

Regulator  for  Water  Wheel, 
Machine  for  Rolling  Barrels,  incomplete, 
831  feet  Counter  Line  Shafting,  not  in  use,  $2  per  foot, 
3(i6  feet  Main  Line  Shafting,  not  in  tise,  $2  per  foot,  - 
Apparatus  for  Small  Polishing  Wheels, 

Total, 


No. 


2 

112 

1 


267 

|357 

268 

1,791 

269 

1,740  ' 

270 

1,018 

271 

808 

272 

2,087 

273 

2,002 

275 

875 

276 

868 

277 

448 

280 

125 

281 

76 

282 

468 

283 

353 

284 

577 

285 

585 

286 

338 

287 

399 

288 

121 

289 

596 

290 

238 

291 

540 

293 

121 

296 

310 

297 

330 

294 

416 

295 

117 

298 

1,500 

299 

300 

64 

310 

[Doc.  No.  40.] 


141 


Machinery  received  from  Harper  s  Ferry  up  to  September  1,  18C1. 


BELTING 

Belting, 

Do. 

- 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Inches 
wide. 

Number 
feet. 

Price. 

2 

2,025 

$0  06 

3 

3,498 

10 

4 

394 

28 

6 

209 

18 

6 

154 

22 

1 

93 

26 

8 

276 

30 

9 

142 

34 

10 

32 

33 

13 

90 

60 

14 

42 

75 

18 

90 

1  00 

Amount. 


1121  60 

349  80 

110  32 

37  62 

53  88 
24  18 
82  80 
48  28 
10  56 

54  00 
31  50 
90  00 


Total, 


|994  44 


143 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


Tools  received  from  I{arper\<i  Ferry  up  to  September  1,  1861. 


Aujiers,  carpenters',   - 

Anvils, 

Augers,  barrel  boring, 

BuUei  Moulds 

Ikirrs  for  Ballet  Moulds, 

Bayonet  I'roof, 

Bevels,  assorted, 

Braces,  iron, 

Bills,  augers, 

Bitts,  assorted, 

Bitts,  stockers. 

Brushes,  bench. 

Bending  Tools, 

Balance  Lever, 

Burrs, 

Cutters,  rifling. 

Collets,  drilling, 

Crucibles,    - 

Cans,  tin,  small, 

Countersinks, 

Compasses, 

Chisels,  cold. 

Chisels,  turning  wood, 

Chisels,  smiths'. 

Chisels,  turning  or  stocking, 

Coal  Boxes,  cast  iron, 

Chisels,  turning,  iron, 

Clamps,  steel  and  iron. 

Calibre  Plugs  for  Barrels, 

Chains  for  Derrick,     - 

Chasers, 

Centres  for  Lathe, 

Chuck  Scroll, 

Centres  Tilt  Hammers, 

Cutters  Cutting  Mills, 

Dies  Straightening  Barrels, 

Dies  Tilt  llammer. 

Dies  Punching  and  Trimming,  - 

Dies  Milling  Screws,  &c. 

Dies  Cutting  Screws, 

Dies  Swedging, 

Dividers, 

Dogs  for  turning  Lathe, 

Drawing  Knives, 

Drills,  assorted, 

Drifis,  assorted, 

Disks,  leveling. 
Drill  Cutters, 


No. 

Price. 

Amount. 

1  c.  m. 

168 

0  20  0 

$33  60 

29 

19  84  0 

575  36 

122 

1  (K)  0 

122  00 

1 

2  00  0 

2  00 

54 

0  25  0 

13  50 

1 

3  <)0  0 

3  00 

1 

2  46  0 

2  46 

2.3 

4  00  0 

92  UO 

0 

(1  17  0 

85 

3 

0  12  0 

36 

20 

0  25  0 

6  00 

2 

0  25  0 

50 

4 

5  00  0 

20  00 

2 

2  50  0 

5  00 

91 

0  50  0 

45  50 

44 

0  09  0 

3  96 

276 

1  00  0 

276  00 

8 

0  37  0 

2  96 

2 

0  20  0 

40 

217 

1  35  0 

292  95 

3 

0  34  0 

1  02 

266 

0  31  0 

82  46 

6 

0  17  0 

1  02 

53 

0  64  0 

33  92 

105 

0  15  0 

15  75 

2 

10  00  0 

20  00 

864 

0  45  0 

163  80 

131 

4  59  0 

(101  29 

18 

2  77  0 

49  86 

1 

5  (lO  0 

5  00 

90 

0  47  0 

45  12 

37 

0  94  0 

34  78 

4 

32  14  0 

128  56 

8 

0  75  0 

6  00 

22 

0  25  0 

5  50 

9 

1  60  0 

14  40 

4 

5  00  0 

20  00 

28 

21  70  0 

607  60 

15 

1  70  0 

25  50 

054 

1  25  0 

192  50 

126 

4  08  0 

514  08 

6 

0  75  0 

4  50 

44 

0  95  0 

41  80 

14 

0  50  0 

7  00 

812 

0  88  0 

714  56 

7 

1  50  0 

10  50 

21 

3  87  0 

81  27 

2 

21  26  0 

42  50 

[Doc.  No.  40.] 


143 


Floats  Stockers, 

Former  for  Mills, 

G;uif,'os,  sliding, 

(Jaujjes,  caipcntcrs', 

Gauges,  receiving, 

(tauges,  assorted, 

Gouges,  carjieuters'. 

Guide,  screw  cutting. 

Glue  Tot, 

Grinding  for  Dies, 

Callipers, 

lliiinniers,  liand, 

Ilainniers,  set, 

llaunncrs,  copper  aud  brass, 

Heading  Tools, 

Heads  Cast  Iron  for  Anvil  Blocks, 

•Jigs,  filing, 

.Jigs,  milling, 

.ligs,  drilling, 

Ms^,  slaujping, 

Moulds  Making  Grinders, 

Mandrels  for  (niard  Plates, 

Mandrels,  assorted. 

Mandrels,  cast  iron,  smiths'. 

Jigs,  assorted, 

Mills,  assniti'd, 

Mullets,  wood, 

Oil  Cans,  copper. 

Oilers, 

Oil  Stones, 

Oil  Cups, 

Prick  Punches, 

Pans,  tin, 

Pans,  cast  iron. 

Pans,  sheet  iion, 

l^ms,  copper. 

Pincers,  a-^sorted. 

Polishing  Wheels, 

Planes,  bench, 

PI  lues,  moulding, 

I'licrs, 

Punches,  assorted. 

Polishing  Frames, 

Punches  for  TiSmming, 

I'unclies  with  handles, 

I'lugs  Calibre  Barrels, 

Rests,  la; he, 

Rods,  wiping, 

Hods,  rifling. 

Reamers,  as-orted. 

Stakes  for  Mandreling  Bands,     - 

Stamps  Eagles, 

Sipiare  Standard, 

Saws,  hack. 

Saws,  hand, 

Saws,  circular  for  nietal, 


44 
1 

4 

1(5 

36 

845 

48fi 

29 

1 

37 

11 

99 

41 

26 

113 

78 

102 

26 

51 

2 

3 

2 

178 

3 

113 

1,265 

7 

29 

31 

5 

24 

7 

19 

2 

96 

5 

8 

102 

26 

76 

'^ 

67 

13 

11 

35 

67 

21 

28 

5 

1,040 

1 

1 

1 

7 

1 

46 


m 

0  50  0 

1  00  0 
3  OO  0 
0  18  0 

17  63  0 

2  60  0 
0  24  0 
2  32  0 
2  03  0 
2  65  0 

0  60  0 

1  00  0 

1  37  0 

2  14  0 

1  09  0 
6  50  0 
5  00  0 

10  50  0 
21  (0  0 

2  50  0 

3  25  0 
(0  0 
78  0 
54  0 
87  0 
10  0 

0  28  0 

1  5  •  0 
0  17  0 
0  50  0 
0  10  0 
0  25  0 
0  15  0 

2  73  (> 

2  73  0 

3  70  0 
0  90  0 
8  91  0 
I)  5it  0 

0  76  0 

1  04  0 

0  61  0 
24  66  0 

5  60  0 

1  00  0 

2  30  0 

2  03  0 
0  91  <) 

17  00  0 

0  50  0 
15  00  0 

3  00  0 
10  00  0 

1  20  0 
0  60  0 
U  49  0 


$22  00 

1  00 
12  00 

2  88 
634  68 

2,112  50 

92  64 

67  28 

2  03 

94  35 

6  60 

99  00 

66  17 

55  64 

123  17 

507  00 

610  00 

273  0<) 

1,071  00 

5  00 
9  75 

6  00 
316  84 

28  62 

211  31 

1,391  50 

1  96 
43  50 

5  27 
2 
2 
1 
2 
6 

262  08 
18  6  I 

7  20 
908  82 

12  60 
5<  00 

2  08 
40  87 

320  68 
61  60 
35  0  1 

164  10 
42  63 
25  48 
85  00 

520  00 
15  ()0 

8  00 
10  00 

8  40 

50 

22  64 


144 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


Xo. 

Price. 

Amount. 

$   c.  m. 

Seives,        .... 

2 

1  81  0 

13  62 

Screw  Drivers,    -                 -                 - 

68 

0  41  0 

27  88 

Screw  Plates,              ... 

13 

1   80  0 

23  4l» 

Squares,  assorted, 

15 

0  9a  0 

13  50 

Sledges,  sniitlis'. 

35 

3  08  0 

H  7  80 

Stamps,  letter,     ... 

3(15 

0  25  0 

76  25 

Stakes,  iron,                .                 .                 . 

36 

3  27  0 

117  72 

Stakes,  lead,         ... 

5 

1  00  0 

5  1  0 

Straight  Edges, 

2 

1   23  0 

2  46 

Swedge  Boxes,    ... 

l(i4 

14  88  0 

1,547   52 

Swedge  JuiitpiTs,        .                 .                 . 

138 

5  55  0 

765  90 

Swedge  Dies,       ... 

138 

0  83  0 

114  54 

Swedge,  witli  handles, 

188 

1   75  0 

329  00 

SweiJge  .Junipers, 

3 

5  dO  0 

15  00 

Swedge  Dies,                -                  .                 . 

3 

1   50  0 

4   50 

Swedge  Cast  Iron  Blocks,  - 

48 

23  21  0 

1,114  OH 

Swedge,  with  handles, 

188 

0  83  0 

156  04 

Spoke  Shaves,     -                 .                 - 

15 

0  48  0 

7  20 

Stocks,  drilling  and  milling. 

1 

3  00  0 

3  00 

Stocks,  penciling  and  trimming. 

12 

6  00  0 

72  (lO 

Scales  for  Main  Springs, 

1 

35  00  0 

35  0(» 

Sets  for  Bauds,   -                 -                 . 

4 

0  20  0 

80 

Sets,  assorted,             ... 

15 

0  25  0 

3  75 

Sti'aight  Edges,  -                 .                 - 

1 

0  50  0 

50 

Swedges,  smiths',        ... 

204 

1    90  0 

378  60 

Taps,  metal,         ... 

675 

1   88  0 

1,269  00 

Tongs,  snulhs',            ... 

275 

1    15  0 

316  25 

Tongs,  assorted. 

25 

2  89  0 

72  26 

Tools,  marking  barrels. 

V) 

10  00  0 

20  00 

Vices,  bench,       ... 

147 

8  40  0 

1,234  80 

Vices,  baud,                ... 

{) 

2  50  0 

22  50 

Vices,  lever. 

9 

38  20  0 

343  80 

Vices,  barrel,               ... 

2 

14  67  0 

29  34 

Wheels,  grinding, 

2 

2  00  0 

4  00 

Water  Pots,                 ... 

2 

1   97  0 

3  94 

Wrenches,  sliding. 

5 

1  75  0 

8  75 

Wrenches,  assorted. 

164 

1  45  0 

237  80 

Files,                    ... 

45,36U 

0  27  0 

12,247  20 

Portable  Forge,           -                 .                 . 

1 

50  00  0 

60  00 

Swedging  Cast  Iron  Blocks  forging  Guard  Bows, 

1 

75  00  0 

75  00 

Model  Tools,  Kifled  iVlusket,      - 

67 

16   12  5 

1,080  38 

$37,307  29 

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145 


Stock  received  from  Harper^  Ferry  up  to  September  1,  1861. 


No. 

Price. 

Amount. 

$   c.  m. 

Grindstones, 

26 

84  89  0 

$872  25 

Round  Iron, 

6,815 

0  05  0 

840  75 

Iron,  various  sizes,     - 

84,905 

0  10  0 

8,490  60 

Iron,  Bar  for  Barrels, 

75,335 

0  08  9 

6,704  81 

Wire  Iron, 

13,640 

0  10  0 

1,264  00 

Wire  Brass, 

65 

2  45  9 

29  83 

Cast  Steel, 

80,434 

0  19  0 

6,782  46 

Cast  Steel,  Rifle  Barrels, 

5,225 

0  16  0 

836  00 

Copper  Ingot, 

1,224 

0  27  0 

330  48 

Copper,  scrap, 

4,350 

0  20  0 

870  00 

Emery, 

1,210 

0  08  6 

102  85 

Glue, 

150 

0  25  5 

38  25 

Box  Composition, 

800 

0  25  0 

75  00 

Borax, 

90 

0  23  0 

20  70 

Old  Tools,  unserviceable, 

9,565 

0  12  6 

194  38 

Soft  Solder, 

10 

0  62  0 

6  20 

Old  Files,  worn, 

755 

0  02  0 

15   10 

Steel  Wire, 

166 

0  41  6 

68  47 

Sheet  Steel, 

322 

0  20  0 

64  40 

Bolts  and  Nuts, 

2,162 

0  10  0 

216  20 

35  Bushels  Casehardening, 

- 

0  60  0 

17  50 

4  Carboys  Sul.  Acid, 

480 

0  08  6 

16  80 

Pig  Lead, 

3,100 

0  04  5 

139  50 

Lead  Pipe,  old. 

1,756 

0  04  6 

79  02 

1  Iron  Hammer,  shape. 

40 

0  11  6 

4  60 

32  Gallons  Coal  Oil,  per  gallon, 

- 

0  75  0 

24  00 

Total, 


$26,604  06 


75 


i4e 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


Recapitulation. 


Rifle  Musket,  model  1855,  . 

Percussion  Musket,  model  1842, 

Machinery, 

Beltiug, 

Tools, 

Stock, 


$45,604  64 
11,593  00 
86,657  9:^ 
994  44 
37,307  29 
26,6()4  05 


Total,         $207,661  36 


Note. — Tlie  niacbinery  in  the  foregoinfj  is  inventoried  ten  per  cent,  less  than 
shown  by  the  Harper's  Ferry  inventory.  This  reduction  is  made  to  cover  cost  of 
repairing  machinery,  &c. 

The  foregoing  property  was  received  by  the  State  of  Virginia  from  the  Uaited 
States  Armory,  Harper's  Ferry,  Virginia. 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


U7 


Machinery  and  Tools  sent  to  th-e  State  of  Tennessee,  by  ordfr  of  the  Confederate 
States   War  Department. 


Harper's  Ferry  Machinery  and  Tools  not  included  in  the  list  of  Ma- 
chinery and  Tools  retained  in  the  Confederate  States  Armory,  Rich- 
mond, Virginia,  to  wit: 

One  Rifling  Machine, 

One  fine  Boring  Machine, 

Four  Milling  Machines, 

One  Hand  Breech  Screw  Cutting  Machine, 

One  Vertical  Drill  Press,  eight  spindles. 

One  set  Tools  for  making  Morse  Breech  Loading  Carbines, 

Total, 


$400 

06 

315 

14 

600 

00 

50 

00 

694 

47 

350 

00 

il,     $2,309  67 





148  [Doc.  No.  40] 


Maekitury  received  from  J.  R.  Andereon  Jc  Co.  and  tent  to  the  Staie  of  lenneeeee. 


One  Profiling  Machine.                    ....  $408  00 

One  Cicnr  Cuttinp  Machine,              ....  857  00 

One  Vertical  Drill  Tress,                  •                 -                 -                -  881  60 

Total,  11,096  60 


[Doo.  No.  40.]  149 


I  certify  that  the  foregoing  inventory  has  been  carefully  made,  and  is  correct. 


S.  ADAMS, 

Master  Armorer, 


Sept.  .30,  1861. 


Mr.  Adams,  who  signs  ahove,  was  authorized  to  act  for  Virginia  in  taking  this 
inventory  and  valuing  the  articles. 

C.  DIMMOCK, 
Col.  of  Ordnance  of  Virginia. 

J.  GORGAS, 
Lieut.  Col.  Chief  of  Ordnance  for  Confederate  Statea. 


Received  the  foregoing  property  from  the  State  of  Virginia. 

J.  GORGAS, 

Lifut.  Col.  Chief  of  Ordnance. 

Oct.  7,  1861. 


150 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


Machirury,  Tools,  (tc.  supplied  the  Virc/inia  State  Armory  hy  J,  R.  Anderson  d'  Co. 


Engine  Lathe,  small, 

Engine  Lathe,  medium, 

Engine  Lathe,  large, 

liench  Hand  Latlic,  small. 

Double  Drop  Hammers, 

Fan  Blower, 

Vices,  bench, 

Punching  Press,  large, 

2J  inch  Shafting  and  Fixtures  complete,  65  feet, 

2i  in.  Shafting  and  Fixtures  complete,  118  ft.  5  in. 

2  in.  Shafting  and  Fixtures  complete,  87  ft.  7  in. 

2^-  in.  Shafting  and  Fixtures  complete,  73  ft.  5  in. 

Compound  Planing  Machine, 

Power  Planer  to  plane  5  feet  long, 

Upright  Drill,  No.  3,  single  spindle, 

Smith.s'  Bellows, 

Smiths'  Anvils, 

Power  Planer  to  plane  1^  feet  long, 

4  feet  Pulley,  finished, 

5  feet  Pulleys,  finished, 
3  feet  Pulleys,  finished, 

30  inch  Pulley,  finished, 
40  inch  Pulley,  finished, 
20  inch  Pulley,  finished, 

3  feet  Pulleys,  finished, 
18  inch  Clamp  Pidleys,  cast  iron, 
14  inch  Clamp  Pulley,  cast  iron, 
12  inch  Clamp  Pulleys,  cast  iron, 
10  inch  Clamp  Pulley,  cast  iron, 

8  inch  Clamp  Pulleys,  cast  iron, 
Sets  Counter  Shafts,  Pulleys,  Hangers,  &c. 
Sets  Counter  Shaft.s,  Pulleys,  Hangers,  &c. 
Turbin  Water  Wheel,  75  Horse  Power,     - 
Gum  Belting  8  inch  to  12  inch  wide,  230  feet,    ) 
Leather  Belting,  assorted  widths,  546  feet,  ) 

Screw  Clamp,  for  lacing  large  Belts, 
Pair  Brasser  for  Barrel  Press,    - 
Sundries,  Smith's  work  for  Hammers,  1,135  lbs. 
Sundries,  Castings  for  Hammers,  4,786  lbs. 

Sundries,  Castings  for  Gun  Barrels,  &c.  968  lbs. 
Sundries,  Castings  for  (lun  Barrels,  &c.  954  lbs. 
Sundries,  Castings  for  Rolling  Mill,  13,864  lbs. 
10  Wall  Hangers  ready  for  Bolts,  1,333  lbs. 
12  Wall  Hangers  Plates,  940  lbs. 

Couplings,  Screw  Bearings,  Pulleys 

and  other  Castings,  6,302  lbs. 

29.144  lbs. 


1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
1 
17 
1 


153  00 
204  (lO 
331  00 
50  00 
667  50 
183  60 
5  00 


15 

00 

15 

00 

15 

00 

15 

00 

625 

00 

437 

50 

250 

00 

25 

00 

12 

11 

660 

00 

75 

00 

50 

00 

40 

00 

35 

00 

40 

00 

20 

00 

40 

00 

18 

00 

15 

00 

14 

00 

12 

00 

10 

00 

20 

00 

50 

00 

,922 

63 

308 

80 

5 

00 

12 

50 

16 

06 


1,748  64 


Total, 


15,314  42 


[Doo.  No.  40.]  151 


Certified,  to  the  best  of  my  knowledge  and  belief,  correct. 

S.  ADAMS, 
Master  Ar7norer. 
Sept.  30,  1861. 


Mr.  Adams,  who  pigne  above,  was  authorized  to  act  for  Virginia  in  taking  thia 
inventory  and  valuing  the  articles. 

C.  DIMMOCK, 
Col.  of  Ordnance  of  Virginia. 

J.  GORGAS, 
Lieut.  Col.  Chief  of  Ordnance  for  Confederate  States. 


Received  the  foregoing  machinery  and  tools  from  the  State  of  Virginia. 

J.  GORGAS. 
Lieut,  Col.  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


[Doo.  No.  40.]  158 


INVENTORY 


OF 


HIFLE      MA.CriINERY, 


SENT  TO 


FAYETTE VILLE,  NOliTII  CAROLINA. 


76 


[Doc.  No.  40.J  155 


CONFEDERATE  STATES  OF  AMERICA,  War  Dkpartmfnt,  ) 

Ordnance  Office,  Ricliiiiond,  Oct.  31,  1861.      ) 

Your  Excellency: 

According  to  tlic  terms  of  tlie  articles  of  aprcemont,  in  regard  to  the 
transfer  of  tlie  armory  property,  it  was  required  tliat  an  officer  of  the  State  Ord- 
nance sliould  lie  present  at  the  taking  of  the  inventory  at  Fayetteville  of  tlje  pro- 
perty forwarded  there. 

The  ordnance  department  of  Virginia  was  notified  that  this  department  was 
prepared  to  take  that  inventory,  and  was  informed  by  the  Colonel  of  Ordnance  of 
Virginia  that  an  ofl^cer  would  he  sent  on  a  certain  day. 

Our  man  was  sent  from  here,  and  after  waiting  at  Fayetteville  several  days, 
without  tlie  ajipearance  of  tlie  State  officer,  proceeded  to  take  the  inventory  under 
the  direction  of  Captain  J.  C.  Booth,  commanding  officer  of  the  post. 

I  present  herewith  a  copy  of  that  iuventory. 

Very  respectfully, 
Your  ob't  serv't, 


J.  GORGAS, 
Lieut.  Col.  Chief  of  Ordnance. 


His  Excellency  J.  Letcher, 

Goveriwr  of  Virginia, 


[Doc.  No   40.] 


157 


Components  received  from  ITarpcr\<t  Ferry  up  to  Srptnnher  1,  1861. 


RIFLE,  MODEL  1856. 

No. 

Price. 

Amount. 

Tips  for  Stocks: 

$   c.  m. 

Cast, 

;,09o 

0  02  5 

27  25 

Various  stages. 

1,230 

0  06  5 

79  95 

Stocks :                                                   , 

Rough,             ... 

12,  "768 

0  32  2 

4,111  29 

Various  stages, 

1,280 

0  60  0 

768  00 

Finishied,          .                 .                 - 

241 

1   21  0 

291  01 

Butt  Plates : 

Polished, 

14 

0  37  0 

5  18 

Butt  Plate  Screws: 

Various  stages, 

30 

0  02  0 

60 

Guard  Plates: 

Cast, 

158 

0  11  0 

17  38 

Various  stages. 

64 

0  19  0 

12  16 

Guard  Bows : 

Various  stages, 

118^ 

0  13  0 

15  34 

Guard  Bow  Nuts : 

Polished, 

390 

0  00  5 

1  95 

Sword  Bayonet  Lock  Pins: 

Forged, 

126 

- 

1   77 

Various  Stages, 

421 

0  20  1 

8  46 

Guard  Screws : 

Polishcdi 

38 

0  08  0 

1   14 

Leaf  Sight  Base : 

Forged,            ... 

1,200 

0  06  2 

62  40 

Various  Stages, 

423 

0  12  0 

60  76 

First  Leaf: 

Various  stages, 

381 

0  07  0 

26  67 

Second  Leaf: 

Various  stages, 

373 

0  10  0 

37  30 

Stud  for  Sword  Bayonet: 

Various  stages, 

247 

0  05  0 

12  35 

Breech  Screws : 

Various  stages, 

259 

0  10  0 

25  90 

Rod  Stops : 

Forged, 

378 

- 

79 

Various  stages. 

1,800 

0  06  1 

10  98 

Vent  Screws : 

Tempered, 

389 

0  01   8 

7  00 

Barrels : 

Bored,              .          v     . 

216 

3  30  0 

709  BO 

Forged, 

343 

1  97  0 

675  71 

Various  stages. 

1,104 

2  63  0 

2,903  52 

Finished,          ... 

180 

6  26  0 

1,126  80 

Upper  Bands: 

Forged, 

231 

0  03  0 

6  93 

foUahed, 

106 

0  06  0 

6  36 

158 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


RIFLE,  MODEL  1885. 


Lower  Bands: 

Forged, 

Polished, 
Band  Springs: 

Finished, 
Lock  Plates: 

Various  stapes, 
Patch  Box,  long  branch : 

Forged, 

Various  stapes, 
Patch  Box,  short  branch: 

Foipi'd, 

Various  stapes, 
Main  Spring  Swivels : 

Various  stages. 
Sword  Handles: 

Various  stages. 
Side  Screw  Washers: 

Various  stages, 
Side  Screws: 

Forged, 
Ramrods : 

Forged, 

Various  stages, 
Tompions  Wood : 

Finished, 
Sword  Blades: 

Forged, 

Various  stages, 
Patch  Boxes: 

Various  stages. 
Patch  Box  Spriug  Screws: 

Finished, 
Patch  Box  Springs : 

Forged, 

Various  stages, 
Patch  Boxes : 

Assembled, 


No. 


107 
126 

48 

706 
844 

297 
yf)6 

1,093 

301 

446 

764 

92 
82 

1,081 

532 
676 

84 

229 

592 
800 

98 


Price. 


Amount. 


fi  c.  m. 

0  03  0 
0   11  0 

0  08  0 

0  30  0 

0  45  4 
0  62  4 

0  43  0 
0  59  8 

0  ti5  0 

0  51   0 

0  02  0 


0  45  0 
0  80  0 

0  29  0 

0  02  0 

0  02  0 
0  09  0 

0  69  0 


8  21 
13  86 

3  84 

11  70 

32  i>6 

62  66 

12  77 
67  76 

54  66 

153  51 

8  92 

16  96 

19  73 
8  01 

16  20 

239  40 
460  80 

24  86 

4  58 

11  84 
27  00 

67  62 

$12,806  48 


[Doo.  No.  40.] 


159 


Components  received  from  Harper's  Ferry  up  to  September  1,  1861. 


PERCUSSION  RIFLE,  MODEL  1842. 

No. 

Price. 

Amount 

Stocks : 

1  c.  m. 

Finished,          ... 

29 

0  91  0 

26  39 

Barrels : 

Finished, 

112 

5  50  0 

61  60 

Variotis  stages, 

390 

4  20  0 

163  80 

Upper  Bands : 

Finished, 

1,420 

0  25  0 

355  00 

Lower  Bands: 

Finished,          ... 

100 

0  09  8 

9  80 

Side  Plates : 

Finished,          ... 

161 

0  05  3 

8  53 

Box  Plates : 

Various  stages. 

488 

0  66  0 

322  08 

Butt  Plates: 

Finished,          ... 

229 

0  21  0 

48  09 

Guard  Plates: 

Completed,       ... 

19 

0  28  0 

6  32 

Lock  Plates: 

Finished,          ... 

670 

0  39  0 

261  .30 

Tumbler  Screws: 

Finished, 

1,280 

0  02  2 

25  60 

Ramrods: 

Forged, 

159 

0  25  0 

39  76 

Finished, 

8 

0  39  0 

3  12 

Ramrod  Springs: 

Finished, 

188 

0  01   9 

3  57 

Hammers: 

Various  stages, 

.•5.30 

0  34  0 

112  20 

Ramrod  Tips: 

Cast, 

634 

0  03  8 

24  09 

Front  Sights: 

Cast, 

2,300 

0  01  0 

23  fKl 

Swivels: 

Finished, 

1.39 

0  06  6 

9  03 

WijU'rs: 

Finished, 

1,817 

0  06  0 

90  86 

Spring  Vicos: 

Finished. 

12 

0  18  0 

2  16 

Slocks  Hall's  Rifle: 

Hough, 

1,806 

0  80  0 

641   60 

Total, 


12,136  78 


160 


[Doo.  No.  40.] 


■Machinery  received  from  Harper's  Ferry  vp  to  September  1,  1861. 


No. 

Amount. 

Straight  Cutting  Maobiue, 

1 

$360  14 

Do. 

- 

- 

- 

2 

860  14 

Do. 

- 

- 

- 

3 

360  14 

Do. 

- 

- 

- 

4 

860  14 

Do. 

- 

- 

- 

5 

359  36 

Do. 

- 

- 

- 

0 

359  36 

Do. 

- 

- 

- 

7 

S(i8  60 

Do. 

- 

- 

- 

8 

308  61 

Do. 

- 

- 

- 

9 

808  62 

Do. 

. 

. 

- 

10 

308  61 

Do. 

double  head, 

- 

. 

11 

323  01 

Do. 

do. 

. 

- 

12 

323  01 

Do. 

single  bead, 

- 

- 

13 

13  50 

Do. 

do. 

- 

- 

14 

32  34 

Do. 

doulile  head. 

- 

- 

15 

310  50 

Do. 

single  head. 

- 

- 

10 

108  00 

Do. 

do. 

- 

- 

17 

108  00 

Do. 

do. 

- 

- 

18 

108  00 

Do. 

do. 

- 

- 

I'J 

115  67 

Do. 

do. 

- 

- 

20 

22  50 

Do. 

do. 

- 

- 

21 

22  60 

Do. 

do. 

- 

- 

22 

18  00 

Do. 

double  head. 

- 

- 

23 

323  01 

Do. 

do. 

- 

- 

24 

323  01 

Do. 

single  head. 

- 

- 

25 

18  00 

Do. 

do. 

- 

- 

26 

18  00 

Do. 

do. 

- 

- 

27 

73  22 

Do. 

do. 

- 

- 

28 

18  00 

Do. 

double  head, 

- 

. 

31 

319   15 

Hand  Planer, 

. 

- 

- 

32 

460  56 

Drilling,  tliroe  spiiulloPj 

- 

- 

- 

33 

252  00 

Btraiglit  Culling,  doul^lc  h 

ead. 

- 

- 

34 

310  50 

Do.                       do. 

. 

- 

- 

35 

310  50 

Do.                      do. 

. 

- 

- 

3t; 

!I0  00 

Milling  Screws, 

- 

- 

- 

37 

180  00 

Puncliing  Press, 

- 

- 

- 

3!) 

357  30 

Rifling  Miicliine, 

- 

- 

- 

41 

496  25 

Do. 

- 

- 

- 

42 

416  04 

Drilling  Press, 

- 

- 

- 

48 

115   10 

SmootYi  lioring  Barrels, 

- 

- 

- 

44 

356  40 

Swift                do. 

- 

- 

- 

45 

254  70 

Kougli              do. 

- 

- 

- 

4(5 

595  80 

Lock  and  Motnitiiig, 

- 

- 

- 

48 

445  50 

Hand  Turning  Latlie,     - 

. 

- 

- 

49 

122  85 

Loek  and  Mounting, 

- 

- 

- 

60 

468  45 

Drilling  Tips, 

- 

- 

- 

51 

22  50 

Profiling, 

- 

- 

- 

52 

99  00 

Second  Turning  Stocks, 

- 

- 

- 

53 

574  02 

[Doc.  K^o.  40.] 


161 


Second  Turning  Stocks, 

Cutting  to  length  second  time, 

Milling  Butts  EaiTfls, 

Spotting  Stocks, 

Cutting  for  Bands  and  Taps, 

Milling  Tumblers  and  Sears, 

Jlilling  Breech  Screws, 

Bedding  for  Barrels, 

Lathe  for  Bands, 

Lathe  for  Bands, 

First  Facing  Stocks, 

Sharpening  Saws, 

Milling  Swivels, 

Drilling,  three  spindles, 

Milling  Sci-ews, 

Milling  Screws, 

Hand  launching  Press, 

Lidex  Cutting  Machine, 

Rifling  Machine. 

Lidex  Cutting  Machine, 

Edging  Components, 

Milling  Butts  Barrels, 

Drilling  Barrels, 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Centreing  Barrels, 
Turning  Barrels, 
Turning  Barrels, 
Flats  and  Ovals, 
Traversing  Lathe,  geared. 
Smooth  Boring  Barrels, 
First  Turning  Stocks, 
Rand  Planer, 
Turning  Lathe, 
Cutting  Engine  Saws, 
Planer,  geared, 
Hand  Lathe  for  wood. 
Hand  Turning  Lathe, 
Traversing  Lathe,  large. 
Drill  Press,  large. 
Drill  Press,  four  spindles. 
Second  Facing, 
Milling  Screw  Drivers, 
Tapping  Barrels, 
Drill  Press,  four  spindles, 
Milling  Cone.-",    ■ 
Drilling  Sundries,  four  spindles, 
Milling  Swivels, 
Sawing  Butts  to  length, 
Turning  Guards, 
Currifig  Butu, 

77 


No. 

Amount. 

64 

652  33 

56 

132  08 

68 

212  22 

59 

61  38 

60 

428  10 

61 

18(1  00 

62 

207  14 

64 

785  78 

65 

758  86 

66 

1U2  42 

67 

209  67 

68 

32  29 

69 

91  86 

73 

364  83 

75 

220  60 

76 

220  50 

77 

82  80 

78 

617  60 

79 

482  64 

81 

617  50 

82 

289  94 

84 

180  67 

85 

273  93 

86 

273  93 

87 

273  93 

88 

273  93 

89 

273  93 

90 

273  93 

91 

273  93 

92 

273  93 

93 

350  69 

94 

617  61 

95 

660  03 

96 

481  26 

97 

186  10 

98 

340  92 

99 

450  im 

109 

225  00 

110 

18f)  00 

111 

270  00 

112 

397  76 

113 

180  20 

114 

154  45 

116 

575  34 

116 

36.)  76 

117 

271  80 

122 

90  00 

123 

181  85 

126 

860  8« 

126 

281  »% 

127 

258  S8 

128 

S81  It 

129 

81  00 

ISO 

•0  00 

181 

827  47 

IM 

•88  iS 

162 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


Drillinfr  Bands,  .... 

Drilling  Bands,  .... 

Do.  .... 

Do.  .... 

Hand  Turning  Latlie,      .... 
Drop  Ilaninicr,  in  pait, 
Jlilling  and  Tapping  Brcccli  Screws, 
Screw  Planer,  .... 

Ppotfing  Stocks  for  boards, 

Profiling  Stocks,  .... 

Machine  Turning  Sword  Handles, 
Drill  Press,  new,  four  spindles, 

"Wiper  Machine,  .... 

New  Compound  Planer,  ... 

Cutting  Macliinc,  .... 

Machine  Milling  Coneseats,  ... 

Machine  Milling  Cones, 
Cutting  Machine,  in  progress,         ... 

Do.  do.  ... 

Do.  do.  ... 

Do.  do.  ... 

Engine  Lathe,  •  .  .  -  . 

Planing  Machine,  new,  ... 

Small  Hand  Planer,         .... 
Tapping  Machine  for  screws, 
Machine  Chambering  Barrels,  in  progress,     - 
Machine  Milling  and  Tapping  Barrel  Screws,  in  progress, 
Governor  for  Water  Wheel,  ... 

Machine  Heading  Stocks, 
«22  Hangers,  at  pi  Sfl  each, 

875  Feet  Main  Line  Shafting  with  couplings,  $4  per  foot, 
270  Feet  Counter  Line  Shafting  at  .?•!  per  foot, 


No. 

Amount. 

137 

136  81 

138 

136  31 

139 

135  31 

140 

135  31 

141 

117  00 

142 

198  00 

143 

2.50  20 

144 

704  83 

145 

293  3,S 

147 

8iil  8() 

_ 

594  Oo 

- 

297  00 

_ 

26  00 

- 

270  00 

- 

23  OO 

- 

S.')!)  40 

- 

18  00 

- 

150  00 

- 

150  00 

- 

150  00 

- 

150  00 

Total, 


315  00 
450  00 
148  50 

49  50 
225  (10 
200  (10 

50  OO 
25  00 

1,078  70 
I  1,500  00 
I   1,080  00 

$38,514  41 


i 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


163 


Belting  received  from  Harper  s  Ferry  up  to  Scpteynber  1,  1861. 


Inches 
wide. 

Number 
feet. 

Price. 

Amount. 

1     c. 

1      c. 

Bcltincj,            ... 

1 

46 

04 

1  84 

Do."^ 

H 

104 

05 

5  20 

Do.              -                -                - 

2 

259 

08 

20  72 

Do.              - 

2i 

602 

10 

60  20 

Do.              -               - 

3 

764 

12 

91   68 

Do.              -               -               - 

8* 

99 

14 

13  86 

Do.              -               -               - 

4 

15 

18 

2  70 

Do.              -               -               - 

6 

108 

22 

23  76 

Do.              -               -               - 

H 

58 

27 

15  66 

Do.              -               -               - 

8 

40 

36 

14  40 

Do.              -               -               - 

8i 

37 

37 

13  69 

Do.              -               -               - 

^ 

57 

35 

19  95 

Do.              -               -               - 

42 

40 

16  80 

Total, 


$300  46 


164 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


Tools  received  from  Ilarper\<t  Ferry  up  to  September  1,  1861. 


No. 

Price. 

Amount. 

Axes,  broad, 

1 

$2  50 

$2  50 

Axes,  hand. 

3 

1  00 

8  00 

Anvils, 

4 

19  00 

76  00 

Adz, 

1 

2  50 

2  50 

Apparatus  for  Spring  Hods  and  Swivels,    - 

a 

3  00 

9  00 

Boxes  making  small  Polishing  Wheels, 

7 

2  50 

17  60 

Braces,  iron. 

8 

4  00 

32  00 

Bitts,  assorted. 

11 

1  50 

16  50 

Bitts,  stockers. 

7-1 

40 

29  60 

Brushes,  bench, 

1 

60 

60 

Bending  Tools, 

2 

20  00 

40  00 

Bitts  Augers  Boring  Barrels, 

C.9 

2  24 

154  56 

Collars  for  punching,                   -       » 

54 

10 

5  40 

Callipers, 

1 

1  80 

1  80 

Countersinks, 

262 

1  27 

332  74 

Compasses, 

1 

2  65 

2  65 

Chisels,  cold, 

226 

07 

15  82 

Chisels,  turning  or  planing, 

77 

27 

20  79 

Chisels,  smiths,            ... 

37 

40 

14  80 

Chisels,  turning,  assorted. 

150 

27 

40  50 

Chisels,  carpenters'  turning, 

12 

78 

9  36 

Clamps,  iron  and  steel. 

89 

5  80 

516  20 

Chasers, 

132 

34 

44  88 

Centres  for  Lathes, 

61 

91 

55  61 

Components  Stockers, 

81 

1  88 

152  28 

Die  Plates, 

1 

3  18 

3  18 

Die  Tapping, 

76 

2  39 

181  64 

Die  Straightening  Barrels, 

10 

2  85 

28  50 

Die  Punching  and  Turning, 

70 

21  70 

1,519  00 

Die  Milling  Screws,     - 

47 

2  85 

133  96 

Die  Cutting  Screws, 

49 

4  00 

196  00 

Die  Swedging, 

150 

1  86 

279  00 

Dogs  Turning  Lathe, 

40 

94 

37  60 

Drawing  Knives,         ... 

3 

91 

2  73 

Drills,  assorted,           ... 

437 

87 

380  19 

Drifts,  assorted,           ... 

35 

1  50 

52  50 

Drills  Drilling  Barrels, 

121 

50 

60  50 

Flasks,  casting, 

16 

4  00 

64  00 

Floats,  stockers. 

13 

1  64 

21  82 

Former  for  Mills,         ... 

16 

1  50 

24  00 

Funnels,  tin, 

3 

10 

30 

Guide  Belts  Stockers, 

24 

1  27 

30  48 

Guages  Model  Rifle, 

37 

278  20 

278  20 

Guages,  receiving, 

20 

15  78 

315  60 

Guages,  assorted,        ... 

607 

4  80 

2,913  60 

Guages.,  plug. 

240 

3  25 

780  00 

Grinders  for  Dies,        ... 

281 

2  45 

688  45 

Grinders,  assorted,     ... 

31 

6  93 

183  83 

[Doc.  No.  40.] 


165 


Hammers,  tilt  head,  small, 

Hammers,  hand. 

Hammers,  setts, 

Hammers,  Iirass  and  copper, 

Heading  Tools, 

Holders  Grinding  Barrels, 

Jigs  Filing, 

Blocks,  cast  iron,  for  anvils, 

Straightening  Barrel  Blocks, 

Anvils,  cast  iron,  for  swedging. 

Tilt  Hammers,  calms  and  shafts. 

Measures,  tin, 

Mandrels  for  Guard  Plate, 

Mandrels,  assorted, 

Machine  Fixtures, 

Oil  Strainers,  copper, 

Oil  Cans,  copper, 
.  Oil  Stones, 

Oil  Cans,  large,  tin,     - 

Pans,  cast  iron, 

Pans,  sheet  iron, 

Patterns  for  Components, 

Polishing  Wheels, 

Mandrels  for  Cutting  Machines, 

Mills,  assorted, 

Planes,  bench, 

Planes,  moulding, 

Punches,  assorted, 

Planes,  stockers, 

Rests,  lathes, 

Rods,  wiping. 

Rods,  rifling, 

Reamers,  assorted, 

Saddlers'  Knife, 

Stamps,  eagle, 

Squares,  standard, 

Saws,  hack, 

Saws,  circular,  for  metal, 

Sieves, 

Screw  Drivers, 

Sledge,  Smiths', 

Shears,  bench. 

Stamps,  stamping  iron. 

Stamps,  letters. 

Stakes,  iron, 

Straight  Edges, 

Swedgc  Boxes, 

Swedge  Jumpers, 

Swedge  Dies, 

Swedgcs,  with  handles. 

Scales,  main  springs. 

Stocks,  drilling  and  milling, 

Taps,  metal. 

Tongs,  smiths', 

Tongs,  assorted,  for  drilling. 

Tinners'  Tools,  one  set, 


4 

70 

20 

16 

27 

2 

79 
15 
3 
5 
2 
3 
4 
177 
164 
5 
2 
1 
35 
5 
14 
78 
102 
131 
811 
16 
6 
12 
2 
7 
4 
3 
298 
1 
1 
2 
2 
9 
2 
3 
7 
1 
22 
277 
8 
9 
69 
B9 
B9 
31 
1 
96 
2^3 
130 
10 


$1  50 

1  05 

99 

80 

1  15 

2  50 
10  50 
10  00 
18  00 
17  00 
62  50 

10 

3  79 

3  70 
10  00 

1  71 
40  00 

50 

2  00 
5  00 

2  00 
04 

4  92 

3  70 
3  19 
1  00 

75 
40 
57 
1  12 
37 
18  00 

1  72 
75 

10  00 
8  00 
50 
87 
94 
39 

2  00 
4  00 
4  00 

25 
00 
38 
00 
60 
60 
00 


1 

1 

2 

4 

4 

2 

35  00 
26  47 

1  fMI 

1  57 

I  22 

200  00 


|6  00 

73  60 

19  80 

12  80 

31  05 

5  00 

829  50 

150  00 

54  00 

85  00 

125  00 

30 

15  16 
654  90 

1,640  00 

8  55 

80  00 

60 

70  00 

25  00 

28  00 

3  12 

501  84 

484  70 

2,587  09 

16  00 


4 

4 

1 

7 

1 

54  00 

612  56 

75 

10  00 

16  00 

1  00 

7  83 
1  98 
1  17 

14  00 

4  00 

88  00 

69  25 

8  00 
12  42 

118  00 

271  40 

271  40 

62  00 

35  00 

2.541  12 

2  S3  00 

204  10 

12  20 

200  00 


166 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


No. 

Price. 

Amount 

Tables,  for  drilling,    ■ 

6 

|5  60 

$28  00 

A''ices,  bench, 

112 

7  86 

824  32 

Vices,  hand, 

4 

2  62 

10  48 

Vice?,  lever, 

2 

80  40 

60  80 

Vices,  barrels. 

2 

15  00 

30  00 

Wiiter  Potri,  copper, 

2 

2  90 

5  80 

Wrenches,  breech  screws, 

8 

4  00 

32  00 

"Wrenches,  assorted,    - 

137 

76 

104  12 

Chisels,  mortising, 

11 

38 

4  18 

Chisels,  furiner. 

11 

88 

4  18 

Drop  Hammer,  in  part, 

1 

200  00 

200  00 

(irindstone  Spindles,  - 

4 

25  00 

100  00 

Barrel  Racks, 

5 

12  00 

60  00 

Cast  Iron  Forfxc,  in  part, 

1 

40  00 

40  00 

Stove,  heatinfi  glue,    - 

1 

5  00 

5  00 

Tilt  Hammer,  in  part, 

1 

40  00 

40  00 

Apparatus,  clipping  wire. 

1 

50  00 

50  00 

Levelling  Tool, 

1 

20  00 

20  00 

Total, 


$23,715  69 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


167 


Stock  received  from  Harper's  Ferry  np  to  September  1,  1861, 


No, 

Price. 

Amount, 

1  c,  m. 

Steel  Wire,  11  lbs.      - 

0  40  0 

|4  40 

Brass  Wire, 

0  40  0 

4  80 

Cork,           .... 

0  10  0 

25 

Cotton  Card,  19  pieces, 

0  31  0 

5  89 

Sand  Paper,  20  quire?, 

0  18  0 

3  60 

MoMJdinp  Sand,  2  barrels. 

2  30  0 

4  60 

Brass  Filings, 

940 

0  05  0 

47  00 

(Vuciliies, 

•y 

0  90  0 

4  50 

Sheet  Stoel. 

Vi 

0  20  0 

2  6iJ 

Bolts  and  Xuts, 

fiOO 

0   10  0 

69  On 

Iron  Castings, 

3,469 

0  03  5 

121   41 

Total, 


1268  05 


168 


[Doc.  No.  40.] 


Jiecapitulation. 


Minnie  Ri6o,  model  1865, 

Percussion  Rifle,  model  1842, 

MiK'liiuery, 

Belting, 

Tools, 

Stock, 


Total, 


$12,305  48 

2,136  78 

38,514  41 

300  46 

23,715  6!) 

268  05 

?;77,240  87 


Note. — Tlie  machinery  in  the  fore^oini;  is  inventoried  ten  per  cent,  less  than 
shown  by  tlie  Hari)er's  Ferry  inventory.  This  reduction  was  made  to  cover  cost  of 
repairing  machinery,  &c. 

The  foregoing  property  was  received  by  the  State  of  Virginia  from  the  United 
States  Armory,  Harper's  Ferry,  Virginia. 


Approved. 


J.  GORGAS, 
Lieutenant  Colonel  Chief  of  Ordnance* 


[DOC.  NO.  XLI.] 


REPORT 


or  THE 


COMMITTEE 


TO  WHOM  WAS  REFERRED  THE 


003!^3MCX7XJ'XO^A.*X*ION^ 


OF  THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


IN  RELATION  TO 


OFFICERS  OF  TEE  ARMl  AND  NAVY  Of  THE  DMTED  STATES 


WHO  HAVE 


RESIGNED  AND  RETURNED  TO  VIRGINIA. 


ADOPTED  BT  THI  CONTENTION  OF  VIRQIKU  OCCEMBCB  i,  IMl. 


71 


[Doc.  No.  41.] 


REPORT. 


The  committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  resolution,  adopted 
on  the  22d  of  November  last,  beg  leave  to  report: 

That  in  the  very  limited  time  within  which  they  have  had  to 
perform  the  duty  assigned  to  them,  they  could  not  examine  and 
report  in  detail  upon  the  various  cases  of  persons  who  have  re- 
signed positions  in  the  army  and  navy  of  the  United  States,  and 
tendered  their  services  to  the  State  of  Virginia  and  to  the  Con- 
federate States,  and  failed  to  obtain  appointments,  but  beg  leave 
to  recommend  to  the  Convention  the  adoption  of  the  following 
preamble  and  resolutions,  viz: 

Whereas,  the  Convention  of  Virginia,  by  ordinance  passed  on 
the  17th  of  April,  1861 ,  invited  all  her  worthy  and  efficient 
sons,  who  were,  on  the  day  of  her  secession,  officers  in  the  army 
and  navy  of  the  United  States,  to  decline  such  service,  and  take 
commissions  under  the  State  of  Virginia:  and,  whereas,  sundry 
such  officers  have  accepted  such  service  under  the  State  of  Vir- 
ginia, and  have  not  been  assigned  to  duty  under  the  Confederate 
States,  and  others  have  failed  to  obtain  service  either  under  the 
State  or  the  Confederate  States:  and,  whereas,  the  State  of  Vir- 
ginia, having  transferred  her  army  and  navy  to  the  Confederate 
States,  has  no  longer  any  place  to  assign  such  persons,  but  deems 
it  the  duty  of  the  Confederate  Government  to  redeem  the  pledge 
of  the  State:  therefore, 

1.  Resolved,  That  the  Confederate  Government  be  requested 
to  redeem  the  engagement  of  Virginia,  thus  pledged  to  her  sons 
in  her  ordinance  aforesaid. 

2.  Resolved,  Should  the  Confederate  Government  fail  to  fulfil 
the  engagement  aforesaid,  the  State  of  Virginia  is  bound  to  do 
so,  in  accordance  with  her  ordinance  aforesaid;  and  this  Conven- 
tion hereby  recommends  to  the  General  Assembly,  to  make  pro- 
vision for  all  worthy  and  efficient  sons  of  the  State,  who  have 
resigned  their  offices  in  the  army  and  navy  of  the  United  States, 
and  failed  to  obtain  employment  from  the  State  or  the  Confederate 
States. 

All  which  is  respectfiilly  submitted. 

JOHN  M.  SPEED,  Charman. 


[DOC.  NO.  xm.] 


COMMUNICATION 


FROM  THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


IN  RELATION  TO  THE 


MOVEMENT  OF  TROOPS 


IN 


NORTH-WESTERN  VIRGINIA. 


[Doc.  No.  42.] 


Executive  Department;  > 
June  12, 1861.      \ 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention: 

It  is  deemed  advisable  that  I  shall  accompany  the  troops,  now 
on  their  march  to  North-Western  Virginia,  and  I  have  therefore 
determined  to  leave  this  city  on  Saturday  morning  next,  a  day 
sufficiently  early  to  enable  me  to  overtake  them  at  Crab  Bottom, 
in  the  county  of  Highland.  At  a  crisis  like  this,  it  is  the  duty 
of  every  citizen  of  the  Commonwealth,  and  especially  of  her 
officers,  to  take  such  position  and  perform  such  duty  as  will  be 
most  likely  to  advance  the  common  interest  and  preserve  the 
unity  of  the  State.  Influenced  by  these  considerations,  and  dis- 
carding ev^erything  that  looks  to  personal  convenience  and  com- 
fort, I  have  determined  to  follow  the  line  of  duty  in  the  redemp- 
tion, both  in  letter  and  spirit,  of  the  obligations  voluntarily  as- 
sumed during  my  canvass,  and  since  my  elevation  to  the  Chief 
Magistracy  of  this  Commonwealth. 

I  have  considered  it  proper  to  announce  my  determination  to 
the  representatives  of  the  people,  that  they  may  be  advised  of 
the  reasons  for  my  absence  during  their  session. 

The  Journal  of  the  Council  will  furnish  full  information  in 
regard  to  all  that  has  been  done  during  the  recess  since  your  ad- 
journment, and  to  it  I  beg  leave  to  call  your  attention. 

I  transmit  herewith,  a  list  of  nominations  for  the  office  of  Col- 
onel, which  have  been  confirmed  by  the  Council,  and  which, 
under  an  ordinance  adopted  by  you,  are  submitted  for  your 
approval. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


[DOC.  NO.  xmi.] 


COMMUNICi^-TION 


FROM  THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


TRANSMl'rriNG  REPORTS  FROM 


COL.  CHARLES  DIM  MUCK 


AND 


LT.  COL.f  JAMES  IL  BUKTOX, 


IN  REFERENCE  TO  THE 


8T0EES,  MACHINEBT,  if.  AT  llAEPEE'S  FEBRV. 


7f 


I 


[Doc.  No.  43.] 


Executive  Department,  ) 
June  14,  1861.      f 

Gentletnen  of  the  Convoitioyj: 

The  papers  herewith  transmitted,  from  Col.  Charles  Dimmock 
and  Lieut.  Col.  Burton,  of  the  Ordnance  Department,  furnish 
full  information  on  the  subject  referred  to  in  your  resolution, 
adopted  this  day,  in  reference  to  the  progress  ^' made  in  con- 
structing the  Armory  at  Richmond." 


Respectfully, 


JOHN  LETCHER. 


[Doc.  No.  43.] 


Ordnance  Department,") 
Richmond,  June  14,  1861.     3 

His  Excelle7icyy  John  Letcher: 

Governor, — Your  note,  with  the  resolution  of  the  iState  Con- 
vention of  this  date,  I  have  received,  and  in  answer,  I  lay  before 
you  the  report  of  Lieut.  Col.  Burton,  under  whom  I  have  placed 
the  entire  charge  and  control  of  all  that  appertains  to  the  ma- 
chinery of  the  armory. 

I  approve  of  his  views  entirely,  as  they  arc  from  one  whom 
skill  and  most  valuable  experience  place  eminently  high  as  a 
mechanic,  and  especially  so  in  connection  with  an  armory. 

I  however  hope  and  believe,  that  the  time  he  fixes  for  begin- 
ning the  manufacture  of  arms,  is  beyond  what  may  be  necessary. 


Very  respectfully. 


C.  DIMMOCK, 
Colonel  of  Ordnance. 


tDoo.  No.  43.] 


Ordnance  Department, 
Richmond;  June  14,  1861. 

Col.  C.  DiMMOCK,  Chief  of  Ordnance: 

Sir, — In  reply  to  the  resnhition  of  the  State  Convention  of 
this  date,  requesting  information  with  reference  to  the  progress 
''made  in  constructing  the  Armory  at  Richmond,"  and  referred 
to  me  by  you,  with  instructions  to  make  a  report  thereon,  1  beg 
to  submit  thef^lowing  statement: 

With  reference  to  the  progress  that  has  been  made  in  the  alter- 
ation and  adaptation  of  the  old  buildings  of  the  armory,  I  may 
say  that  they  are  three-fourths  completed;  and  provided  that  such 
shops  as  are  still  used  in  the  preparation  of  gun  carriages,  (fcc, 
are  vacated  at  once,  the  entire  alteration  of  the  old  buildings  can 
be  accomplislied  in  about  one  month  from  this  time. 

With  reference  to  the  erection  of  new  buildings,  the  only 
building  of  importance  contemplated  in  the  original  armory 
scheme,  was  one  for  the  reception  of  the  necessary  tilt  hammers, 
forges  and  barrel  rolling  machinery.  This  building  is  well  ad- 
vanced; the  walls  will  be  complete  in  a  few  days  time,  and  the 
whole  is  expected  to  be  under  roof  in  from  three  to  four  weeks 
from  this  date. 

With  reference  to  the  machinery  for  the  armory,  Messrs.  Jos. 
R.  Anderson  ifc  Co.,  who  were  the  contractors  for  the  whole 
working  plan  of  machinery,  etc.,  had  made  good  progress  up  to 
the  time  of  the  secession  of  the  State  of  Virginia,  and  they  had 
all  their  arrangements  complete  for  fully  complying  with  the 
terms  of  their  contract,  and  1  have  reason  to  believe  that  they 
would  have  met  all  their  obligations  to  the  State,  had  it  not  been 
for  the  change  of  circumstances,  incidental  to  the  political  action 
of  the  State.  The  machinery  which  was  sub- con  traded  for  out 
of  the  State,  by  authority,  of  course  cainiot  be  delivered,  und^r 
existing  circtmistances,  and  hence  the  necessary  suspension  of 
Messrs.  Joseph  R.  Anderson  <fc  C'o's  contract,  which  occurred 
.some  three  or  fmr  weeks  since,  during  which  time  nothing  fur- 
ther has  been  done  by  them  towards  the  supply  of  any  portion 
of  the  machinery  they  contracted  for,  and  I  believe  thnt  negotia- 
tions are  now  ])ending  with  reference  to  the  abrogation  of  the 
contract.  The  main  lines  of  shafting  have  been  completed  and 
erected  in  the  west  wing  of  the  armory,  and  have  been  in  run 
ning  order  for  some  time.  Those  for  the  cast  wing  were  in  hand 
at  the  time  of  the  suspension  referred  to,  but  were  not  very  far 
advanced. 


8  [Doc.  No.  43.] 

The  capture  and  removal  to  Richmond  of  the  machinery,  &.€., 
at  Harper's  Ferry,  with  a  view  to  its  erection  in  the  State 
armoryj  places  the  whole  affair  in  a  new  light;  and  if  the  State 
desires  to  avail  itself  of  the  full  manufacturing  powers  of  the 
machinery  thus  rendered  available,  some  imiwrtant  and  essential 
changes  will  become  necessary  in  the  arrangement  of  buildings, 
and  in  the  details  of  mainifacturc  generally,  inasnmch  as  the 
original  armory  scheme  contemplated  the  manufacture  of  but 
5,000  arms  per  annum,  whilst  the  machinery  from  Haqier's 
Ferry  is  capable  of  producing  at  least  15,000  arms,  if  proi;)erly 
and  judiciously  erected  and  worked.  It  is  clearly  the  true  inter- 
est of  the  State  to  manufacture  arms  on  the  largest  scale  possible 
with  the  means  at  command,  as  they  will,  in  thi»case,  cost  less 
than  when  manufactured  on  a  small  scale,  for  obvious  reasons. 
The  machinery  being  available  for  producing  15,000  arms  per 
annum,  it  only  remains  to  make  such  additions  to  the  existing 
buildings,  as  will  accommodate  it,  and  which,  I  think  can  be 
erected  at  a  cost  not  exceeding  the  sum  that  will  be  saved  by  the 
abrogation  of  Messrs.  Anderson  &-  Go's  contract  for  machinery. 
In  other  words,  it  is  proposed  to  divert  the  funds  apjiropriated 
for  the  purchase  of  machinery,  tfcc,  to  tlic  erection  of  additional 
buildings.  In  view,  therefore,  of  all  the  facts  and  circumstances 
of  the  case,  I  strongly  reconnnend  the  closing  of  the  contract 
for  machinery  on  equitable  terms,  and  the  erection  of  such  addi- 
tional buildings  as  may  be  necessary  for  the  full  accommodation 
of  the  machinery,  lately  used  at  Harper's  Ferry,  in  the  manu- 
facture of  rille-muskets.  If  this  course  should  be  decided  upon, 
it  is  thought  that  in  six  months  time,  a  good  produce  of  arms 
will  be  steadily  turned  out. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be,  sir, 

Your  most  obedient  servant, 

JAMES  H.  BURTON, 

Lieut.  Col.  of  Ordnance. 


[DOC.  NO.  XLIV.] 


COMMUNICi^TIOlSr 


FROM  THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


SUBMITTING  AN 


ADVICE  OF  COUNCIL, 


IN  RELATION  TO  TUK 


JLVNUFACTUIIE  OF  GUNPOWDER. 


80 


[Doc.  No.  44.] 


Executive  Departmext,  "> 
June  15,  1861.      f 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention: 

I  transmit  herewith,  the  advice  of  the  Council,  upon  a  subject 
of  great  importance,  and  respectfully  solicit  immediate  action. 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


[Doo.  No.  44.] 


(Confidential.) 

In  Council,  June  15,  1861. 

Advised  unanimously,  that  the  attention  of  the  Convention 
be  respectfully  invited  to  the  scant  supply  of  powder  in  our 
magazines,  and  that  the  Governor  earnestly  urge  upon  tlie  Con- 
vention, the  propriety  of  giving  such  encouragement  for  the 
manufacture  of  powder,  as  will  secure,  at  an  early  day,  the  erec- 
tion of  Powder  Mills,  with  capacity  sufficient  to  meet  the  proba- 
ble wants  of  the  public  service. 

From  the  minutes: 

A  copy:  P.  F.  HOWARD, 

Secretary  of  the  Council, 


[DOC.  NO.  XLV.] 


COMMXJlSriC-A.TION 


FROM  THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  TiHE  COMMONWEALTH, 


SUBMITTING  AN 


ADVICE  OF  COUNCIL; 


RELATIVE  TO 


CONMaiONS  WITfl  SEVELU  EAIL  KOAPS  IN  TBE  STATl 


[Doc.  No.  45.] 


Executive  Department,") 
Richmond,  June  15,  1861.     y 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convejition: 

I  respectfully  submit,  for  your  consideration,  an  advice  of  the 
Council,  relative  to  connections  with  several  railroads  in  the 
State,  necessary  to  facilitate  military  operations. 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


81 


[Doo.  No.  45.] 


In  Couxcil,  June  12,  1S61. 

Advised  unanimomlif ,  That  tlie  various  propositions  submitted 
to  the  Governor  and  Council,  to  make  connections  lietween  the 
Richmond,  FredericK'sbnrir  anri  Potomac  Knih'oad,  and  the  Rich- 
mond and  Peicrsbnrif  Railroad,  through  the  city  of  Richmond, 
between  the  Richmond  and  Petersburg  Railroad,  and  the  Peters- 
burg and  W'eldon  Railroad,  through  or  near  the  city  of  Peters- 
burg, and  between  the  Manassas  Gap  Railroad,  and  the  Win- 
chester and  Harper's  Ferry  Railroad;  also  as  to  the  transfer  of 
the  York  River  Railroad  to  the  State,  be  referred  to  the  Conven- 
tion. 


[I)OC.  NO.  XLYL] 


COMMUNIC^TIOlSr 


FROM  THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


IN  RESPONSE  TO  A 


RESOLUTION  OF  THE  COISTV^ENTION, 


REQUESTIMO  IXrORMATION  AS  TO  THE  KCUBER  AKD  NAMES  OF 


AIDS  TO  THE  GOVERNOR. 


[Doc.  No.  46.J 


Executive  Department,  7 
June  14,1861.      5" 

Gentlemen  of  the  Conve?iiion: 

I  received  .yesterday  evening,  a  resolution  adopted  by  your 
honorable  body,  and  which  is  in  the  following  words,  viz: 

"Resolved,  IMiat  the  Governor  be  requested  to  inform  the 
Convention  of  the  number  and  names  of  aids  to  the  Governor, 
appointed  by  him,  and  the  rank,  pay  and  emoluments  of  "Said 
aids." 

In  response  to  this  resolution,  I  state,  that  I  have  ten  aidb. 
On  reference  to  the  Code,  chapter  23,  section  16,  page  140,  it 
will  be  seen  that  seven  of  them  have  their  rank  assigned  as  Bre- 
vet Colonels  of  Cavalry.  Those  seven  are,  Jeremiah  Morton, 
R.  H.  Catlett,  8.  Basselt  French,  Marmaduke  Johnson,  Greenlee 
Davidson,  Henry  A.  Edmundson  and  William  W,  Crump.  Two 
of  these  gentlemen  have  been  in  active  service  at  Harper's 
Ferry.  The  other  five  have  been  employed  laboriously  in  the 
performance  of  necessary  service  in  this  city.  Of  the  number, 
live,  I  believe,  expect  to  receive  pay  according  to  the  rank  as- 
signed them  by  law;  but  this  is  an  inference  drawn  from  what  1 
have  heard  from  others,  and  not  from  them.  1  have  not  consid- 
ered it  either  honorable  or  bccomin^•  to  inquire  whether  their  ser- 
vices were  to  be  rendered  ^ratuitoiisbj .  I  was  satisfied  they 
were  honest,  capable  and  ellicient,  and  they  were  therefore  se- 
lected. One  of  them,  with  that  liberality  which  has  ever  marked 
his  character,  gave  a  check  for  .9500,  some  time  ago,  to  aid  in  the 
prosecution  of  the  war,  in  which  we  are  now  engaged. 

The  remaining  three  aids,  viz:  Thomas  Dodamead,  John  S. 
Caskie  and  Hugh  .Alercer  Sianard,  were  appointed  Lieutenants  of 
cavalry,  under  an  ordinance  passed  by  your  honorable  body,  on 
the  lyth  day  of  April  last.  Mr.  Dodamead  was  appointed,  be- 
cause his  services  were  needed  in  making  arrangements  for  the 
speedy  transportation  of  troops.  Messrs.  Caskie  and  Slanard 
h.'ive  been  in  active  service — the  former  at  Gloucester  Point,  the 
latter  at  Yorktown — and  were  of  service  in  procuring  and  trans- 
mitting information.  In  concluding  this  branch  of  tlic  inquirv, 
it  alfords  me  pleasure  to  say,  that  in  the  recent  engagement  at 
Bethel,  INIr.  Slanard  bore  himself  with  great  gallantry  through- 
out the  action. 

The  aids  provided  for  under  the  law  of  1859-60,  liolding  bre- 
vet rank;  are  eulitieU  io  the  pay  of  Lieutcnant*CoU>uel,  which 


4  [Doc.  No.  46.] 

amounts  to  S1S5  per  month — the  pay  of  Lieutenants  ol  cavalry 
is  slOO  per  month.  No  emolumonts  are  attached  to  either  posi- 
tion, under  the  law  of  the  Confederate  Congress. 

Respectfully 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


[DOC.  NO.  XLVII.] 


COMMU:N"ICA.TIOIvr 


FROM  THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


RETURNING  THE 


NOMINATION 


OF 


FRANCIS  I.  THOMAS, 


WITH 


ACCOMPANYLNG  DOCUMENTS* 


[Doc.  No.  47.] 


ExECmVK  DnPARTMrN-T,") 

June  24,  1861.     j" 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention: 

I  have  been  requested  by  Colonel  Francis  I.  Thomas,  (whose 
nomination  you  n^qnested  nie  to  withdraw, i  to  transmit  to  ynu 
the  ciiclnsed  letters.  As  the  noniinaiion  has  not  ber*!!  with- 
drawn, the  question  is  still  under  the  control  of  the  Convention. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


[Doc.  No.  43.] 


Richmond,  June  23,  1861. 

His  Excellency ,  Gov .  Letcher: 

Dear  Sir — Colonel  Thomas  has  called  upon  me  in  reference 
to  the  failure  by  the  Convention,  to  confirm  the  commission 
which  you  gave  him. 

The  statoment  which  ho  makes  of  his  case,  the  fact  that  ho 
was  formerly  in  the  army,  and  that  he  is  now  employed  in  im- 
portant and  confidential  services  by  Gen.  Johnston,  makes  it  pro- 
per that  the  matter  should  be  re-considered. 

I  would  therefore  respectfully  suggest  that,  if  you  see  no  cause 
against  it,  you  re-nomiiialc  Colonel  Thomas  for  his  firmer  rank, 
and  send  his  letter  to  the  Convention,  where  I  will  endeavor  to 
have  justice  done  him. 

Very  respectfully, 

Your  servant, 

ROBERT  Y.  CONRAD. 


[Doo.  No.  47.] 


Richmond,  June  23,  1861. 

To  his  Excellency,  John  Letcher,  Esq., 

Governor  of  Virginia: 

Sir, — Your  Excellency  will  reniembor,  that  at  the  period  of 
our  attempted  npiisiii!^  in  Maryland,  (April  19,  1861,)  I  was  se- 
lected, on  account  of  my  long  previous  service  in  the  United 
States  Army,  fir  a  most  important  and  responsihle  military  posi- 
tion. I  was  inuiiediately  charged  witli  tiie  duty  of  arming  the 
State  and  the  city  of  l3;iltimore,  which  had  been  previously  most 
carefully  disarmed  by  Gov.  Hicks. 

In  ptnsnance  of  that  dnty,  and  under  written  instructions 
from  our  leaders,  I  caiuc  tn  this  State,  and  labored  n)osr  assidu- 
ously in  procuring,  witii  yonr  consent,  a  number  of  heavy  can- 
non, which  I  moved  overland  to  Harper's  Ferry,  intending  to 
plant  them  fir  ih*^  defence  of  Baltimore.  My  labors,  however, 
were  of  no  avail,  as  my  State  was  subjugated  before  I  could  get 
back,  and  the  camion,  transported  at  oiy  expense,  were  turned 
over  to,  and  used  by  the  authorities  of  Virginia.  When  I  reached 
my  honjo  in  Baltimore,  an  order  for  my  arrest  was  made  by  the 
Lincoln  Government,  and  I  was  made  a  refugee  from  home,  I 
came  to  Virginia,  but  brought  with  me  over  2,0U0  Marylanders, 
who  are  now  in  the  service  of  the  South. 

You  commissioned  me  as  colonel,  to  command  my  own  men, 
and  Gen.  Johnston  placed  me  on  his  own  staff,  and,  dnritig  his 
recent  operations  in  the  valley  of  Virginia,  by  which  he  tho- 
roughly broke  up  the  enemy's  plans  of  invasion,  he  ordered  me 
to  Richmond  on  a  mission  vital  to  the  safety  of  his  forces.  This 
mission  I  discharged  with  such  promptness  and  celerity,  as  t<i  re- 
ceive from  the  General  special  commondation.  He  has  since 
ordered  me  here  again  to  discharge  certain  highly  important 
duties,  as  you  will  see  by  the  order  which  I  submit  for  your  pri- 
vate observation.  The  proper  execution  of  this  order  may,  and 
likely  will,  as  you  may  see,  require  me  to  go  to  North  Carolina. 
If  I  am  stopped  now.  Gen.  Johnston  must  be  notified,  and  an- 
other otiicer  sent,  to  the  delay  and  injury  of  the  public  sc-rvire. 

But  you  may  judge,  sir,  of  the  shame  and  mortification  with 
which  I  am  overwhelmed,  at  being  informed  by  you  that  the 
Convention  has  invited  you  to  withdraw  my  appointment,  with- 
out a  word  of  explanation. 

I  solemnly  assert,  sir,  that  I  am  ignorant  of  any  act,  error  or 
omission  of  mine;  to  merit  this  undeserved  disgrace.     If  there 


8  [Doc.  No.  47.] 

be  any  charj^es  against  mc,  a  court  martial  should  examine  them, 
and  I  should  be  allowed  to  know  them. 

1  am  here,  in  your  State,  banished  from  my  own,  am  engaged 
in  fighting  your  battles.  I  am  cut  olf  from  my  honie  and  all 
possibihty  of  support;  my  life  would  pay  the  penalty  of  an  •at- 
tempt on  my  part  to  return  to  Baltimore,  where  alone  1  could 
support  myself,  and  I  appeal  to  you  to  say  whether,  since  I  have 
been  in  service  here,  I  have  shown  any  zeal,  ability  or  efficiency. 

I  have  lung  been  aware  that  an  aged  gentleman  from  Balti- 
more has  been  industriously  endeavoring  to  supplant  me,  under 
the  false  idea  that  I  stand  in  the  way  of  his  son's  advancement, 
by  communications,  to  my  detriment,  to  many  persons  in  official 
position.  These  demonstrations  on  the  part  of  an  octogenarian, 
whose  mind  is  much  impaired,  I  have  overlooked. 

It  may  be,  that  he  has  been  the  prime  cause  of  this  action  of 
the  Cnnvcntion.  For  the  truth  of  what  I  state,  I  refer  you  to 
Col.  JSpurnie,  of  Baltimore,  who  has  just  been  commissioned 
by  the  President. 

'  I  beg,  sir,  that  you  will  refer  this  matter  to  the  Honorable  Oon- 
vention  again,  with  an  urgent  request,  that  they  will  not  strike 
down,  and  disgrace  an  officer  of  long  service,  like  myself,  with- 
out giving  him,  at  least,  an  opportunity  of  knowing  the  charges 
against  him. 

Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

FRANCIS  I.  THOMAS. 


[DOC.  NO.  XLVIIL] 


COMMU]SriCA.TION 


FROM  THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


TRANSMITTING  A  LIST  OP 


VESSELS  EMPLOYED  BY  THE  STATE  OF  VIRGINIA, 


AS  REPORTED  BY 


CAPTAIN  S.  BAKRON. 


83 


[Doc.  No.  48.] 


Executive  Department;  7 
.Tune  ;>4,  1861.      y 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention: 

The  report  of  Captain  Barron,  herewith  transmitted,  will  fur- 
nish tlio  information  called  for  by  your  resolution,  adopted  this 
day. 

Respectfully, 

.lOHN  LETCHER. 


[Doc.  No.  48.] 


LIST 

Of  Vcaseh  employed  by  the  State  of  Vii'gijiio. 


Oefice  op  Orders  axd  Detail,  "> 
.Tune  21,  1S63.     5 

Steamer  ''  Virginia,''  Rappahannock  River,  compensation  j5<2,000 
per  month,  and  cost  of  coal,  provisions  and  repairs. 

Steamer  "  Logan,"  York  River,  compensation  ^2,000  permonlh, 
and  cost  of  coal,  provisions  and  repairs. 

Steamer  ^'Yorktown,"   Richmond,   Virginia,   seized.     Fitting 
out  as  a  vessel  of  war  to  carry  eight  guns. 

Steamer  ''Jamestown,"  Richmond,  Virginia,  seized. 

Steam  Tug  "Teaser,"  purchased.     Mounts  two  light  32-pound 
giuis.     Employed  on  James  River,  Jamestown  Island. 

Steamer  ''Northampton,"  purchased  for .$45,000.    James  River. 

Steamer   "George  Page,"   seized   at  Alexandria.     At  Acquia 

Creek . 
Steamer  "Empire,"  at  xS'orfolk.     Terms  of  charternot  reported. 

S.  BARRON, 
Captain  in  charge. 


[DOC.  NO.  XLIX.] 


COMMUNICA.TIOj>^ 


FROM  THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


RETURNING  THE  NOMINATION  OP 


ALFRED  BECKLEY, 


AS 


COLONEL  OF  VOLUNTEERS. 


[Djc.  No.  49] 


Executive  ^)RP^RTM•^NT, 
June  25,  1861. 


} 


Gentlemen  of  the  Convention: 

The  name  of  Alfred  Beckley  will  be  found  on  the  hst  of  colo- 
nels sent  in  to  your  honorable  body  for  confirmation.  Since  ac- 
tion was  suspended  on  this  nomination,  I  have  received  the  let- 
ter herewith  transmitted,  which  shows  that  he  has  been  actively 
engaged  in  raising  his  regiment,  and  that  his  eli'orts  have  been  at- 
tended with  the  most  gratifying  success. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


84 


[Dor.  X<1.  49.] 


Lor.vx  CniRT  TToi:?!!:.  A'iririiiia. 

To  /lis  E.rrcllcurij.  John  LETCtiF.fi, 

(did  the  Militanj  Councils,  Richmond: 

Gentlemen — It  may  be  presumptiinns  on  my  part,  but  deem- 
ing it  my  fluty  to  tbo  Stale,  I  proceed  to  suggest  to  yon,  most 
lespecttully,  that  there  is  imminent  danger  of  Jiaving  a  portion 
of  our  North- West  part  oi  A'irginia  cut  otf,  besides  the  danger  of 
invasion  of  our  people  at  various  points,  and  that  to  my  humble 
apprehension,  the  only  way  to  check  these  threatened  efforts, 
(and  we  hear  of  an  affair  in  }3arbonr  rounty,  in  which  thore  has 
occi^rred  an  invasion.)  is  to  concentrate  upon  the  head  waters  of 
Kanawha,  the  Gauley  head,  or  somewhere  on  little  Kanawha, 
within  striking  distau'^e  of  Point  Pleasant,  Parkersburg  and 
AVheeling,  ten  thousand  or  more  of  the  Southern  or  Virginia 
volunteers,  as  a  rallying  point  for  llic  militia,  in  case  the  Ohio 
and  Pennsylvania  troops,  induced  by  the  traitorous  solicitations 
of  the  disaffected  of  the  North- West,  or  pan  handle  counties, 
should  attempt  invasion  of  the  State  in  various  directions. 

The  knowledge  that  an  efiective  force  was  within  striking  dis- 
tance would  restrain  these  attempts. 

Just  before  I  left  Raleigh,  to  visit  the  Wyoming  Legion,  Boone 
regiments,  with  a  view  of  addressing  the  jieople  in  general,  and 
the  militia,  so  as  to  bring  about  unanimity  in  our  action,  and  to 
induce  volunteering,  there  was  a  report,  which  I  did  not  believe, 
that  11,000  men  had  reached  Braxton  C.  11.,  but  notwithstand- 
ing its  improbability,  it  spread  and  produced  a  very  great  panic, 
even  in  Greenbrier  and  Alonroe  counties.  Now,  gentlemen,  it 
was  the  knowledge  of  the  unprepared ness  of  our  Western  Vir- 
ginia to  resist  such  invasions,  that  causes  these  reports  to  produce 
such  injurious  panics,  and  I  beg  that  you  will  give  serious  atten- 
tion to  this  letter  and  to  my  sincere  (whether  you  may  adopt 
them  or  not,  that  is  your  responsibility,)  suggestion.  If  such  a 
body  of  men  arc  not  thus  posted,  there  is  very  great  danger  of 
having  our  State  partially  dismembered.  The  Northern  Metho- 
dist ministers  arc  very  active  in  stiring  up  a  bad  feeling  among 
our  people,  and  in  soliciting  military  aid  from  Ohio  and  Penn- 
sylvania, and  they  should  be  overawed  and  restrained  by  an  im- 
mediate ]irompt  military  measure,  as  ^  1  by  me.  Besides 
the  great  body  of  our  j^eople,  our  f.  nd  our  little  ones, 
would  then  feel  a  sense  of  security  we  ar<!  tjow  without. 

1  am  happy  to  say  that  by  God"s  blessing  upou  uiy  humble  ef- 


6  [Doc.  No.  40.] 

((irts,  I  havo  been  greatly  siircossful  in  uniting  and  nerving  onr 
people.  (.>ne  or  two  companios  of  volunteers  in  Nicholas,  three 
in  t'ayette,  two  in  RaIoii;h.  one  in  Wyonu'ng.  and  in  I-ogan  ihn 
pvospect  ot'  a  third  company.  -N<'xt  week  I  visit  noone,  and  will 
doubtless  get  np  a  second  company  there.  I  send  this  dispatch 
by  the  hands  of  .lames  Lawson,  Esq.,  a  member  of  the  State 
Convention. 

With  my  In'gh  regards  to  each  one  of  your  honorable  council, 
gentlemen. 

1  am, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

A.  BECKLEY, 

Brig,  (jlcti.  Commwifibtg  21tli  Briiraffr. 


P.  S. — May  I  request  that  you  will  let  his  Excellency,  Presi- 
dent Davis,  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  know  of  this 
letter. 

RespectfuUv. 

A.B. 


[DOC.  i\0.  L] 


COMMUjS'IC-A.TIO]S' 


FROM  THE 


EXECUT.IVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


TRANSMITTING  THE 


NOMINATIONS 


OF 


BENJAMIN  S.  EffELL,  JOHN  A.  CAMPBELL  AND  WILLIAM  SillTB, 


AM 


COLONELS  OF  VOLUNTEERS. 


[Doc.  No.  50.] 


Executive  Department,  ") 
June  26,  1861.     y 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention: 

I  present  for  confirmation  as  colonels  of  volunteers,  viz:  Benj. 
S.  Ewell,  promoted  from  the  position  of  Liieutenant  Uolonel, 
which  he  now  fills  in  the  29th  Regiment. 

John  A.  Campbell,  to  take  the  command  of  a  regiment  of  vol- 
unteers which  he  has  raised;  and  Ex-Governor  VVilliam  hJmilh. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


85 


[DOC.  XO.  LLl 


COMAIUISriC^TIO>r 


FROM  THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


TRANSMITTIXG  THE  NOMINATION  OP 


RICHARD  THOMAS  ZARVONA, 


A8 


COlOXEl  OF  VOLUNTEERS. 


[Doc.  No.  51.] 


Executive  Department,  ^ 
.luly  1,1861.     ]" 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention: 

I  nominate  for  colonel  of  volunteers,  Richard  T.  Zarvona,  and 
ask  the  confirmation  of  tho  nomination  by  your  honorable  body. 

Respectfully, 

.lOHN  LETCHER. 


[DOC.  NO,  III.] 


COJMMXTNIC^TIO:>? 


FROM  THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  C0M3I0NWEALTH, 


TRANSMITTING  A 


COMMUNICATION 


PROM 


HON.  L.  P.  WALKER,  SECRETARY  OF  WAR, 


IN  RELATION  TO  THE 


TIllE  OF  StUVlCE  OF  TflE  VOLCMEEE  lOECES  OF  VIEdLMi 


[Doc.  No.  52.] 


Executive  DEPART^fFA•T,') 
July  1,1861.      y 

GcJitlemen  of  the  Convention: 

I  received  (through  the  mai!)  at  half  past  nine  o'clock  ypster- 
diiy  morning,  ihe  Jerter  herewith  transmitted,  from  Hon.  Ij.  P. 
Walker,  Secretary  of  \V;ir  «'f  the  Confederate  States  of  America, 
which  it  is  proper  shonid  receive  action  from  yonr  hody,  before 
)'ou  acJjourn.  The  ordiiiafice  piissed  by  you  on  the  SUth  of 
April,  (\o.  23,)  prescribns  the  term  of  service  of  t!ie  v<.lnnteers, 
and  they  have  been  mustered  into  service  np<>n  those  terms.  All 
that  we  have  received  arc  twelve  months  men,  and  i  have  no 
present  hope  or  expectation,  that  those  wh'»  may  volunte'^r  ia 
future,  will  be  willing  to  enter  the  service  np  tn  terms  difl"i-rent 
from  those  heretofore  prescribed  and  recognized.  The  terms 
proposed  in  the  comnmnicntion  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  if  they 
are  to  be  enforceJ,  cannot  f;ul  to  embarrass  onr' action  in  regard 
to  the  volunteers  received  since  the  date  of  the  transfer,  and 
which  must  nmv  ntmiber  several  thousand. 

If  this  policy  shall  be  carried  cut,  the  resnit  will  be,  that  we 
shall  have  two  armies  in  the  field,  under  difTerent  comniands, 
and  acting  independently  "f  each  other,  or  we  will  be  driven  to 
the  necessity  of  disbanding  the  volunteers  received  into  the  ser- 
vice since  the  date  of  the  transfer;  in  either  event  conflict  and 
confusion  therefore  will  be  the  residt,  and  the  efliciency  of  the 
service  must  be  seriously  impaired. 

I  earnestly  hope,  ihereft»re,  the  Convention  will  take  such  ac- 
tion as  will  .settle  these  qu<'stion.s  in  some  manner  sati.'^faclory  to 
the  Confederate  States  and  the  State  of  Virginia.  It  is  my  de- 
sire, and  it  should  be  the  desire  of  all,  to  preserve  unity  and 
harmony  in  our  action,  and  to  this  end,  I  am  willmg  to  make 
every  sacrifice  that  patriotism  demands.  No  adjournment,  there- 
fore, ought  to  take  place  untd  these  questions  are  salislaciorily 
adjusted. 

Respectfully; 

JOH>  LETCHER. 


SC 


[Doc,  Ko.  ft2.] 


CONFEDEUATE  StATE?  OF  AmF.RICAjT^ 

War  Departmknt,  Kichmond,  June  29,  IbGl.     3 

^,> —Understanding  that  Virginia  troops  are  being  received 
for  twelve  nio,.ths,  1  beg  to  state,  tliat  the  policy  adopted  by  the 
Pro«^ident  is  not  to  receive  any  troops  into  the  ConU^derate  ser- 
vice for  a  period  less  than  three  years,  or  for  the  war.  This  nile, 
of  course,  will  not  applv  to  troops  in  the  service  of  ^  irguna,  at 
the  time  of  the  transfer,  but  it  does  cover  all  cases  occurrmg 

since. 

Very  respectfully, 

.L.  P.WALKER, 

Secrctanj  of  War. 

His  Excellency,  John  Letcher, 

Governor  of  Virginia. 


[DOC.  NO.  LIII.] 


coMMuisrioATiO]sr 


FROM  THE 


EXECUTIVE  OF  THE  COMMONWEALTH, 


TRANSMITTING  A 


COMMUISriCATIOlSr 


FROM 


HON.  L.  P.  WALKER,  SECRETARY  OF  WAR. 


[Doc.  No.  53.] 


ExECUTivK  Department,  ) 
November  22,  1861.     jT 

Gentlejnen  of  the  Convention: 

I  have  received  from  Hon.  J.  P.  Benjamin,  Secretary  of  War 
of  the  Confederate  States,  the  communication  herevith  trans- 
mitted, and  commend  it  and  its  recommendations  to  your  con- 
sideration. It  presents  for  your  action,  a  subject  of  the  utmost 
importance,  and  reveals  a  state  of  facts  of  which  I  had  no 
knowledge,  until  they  were  brought  to  my  attention  by  the 
Secretary's  letter.  • 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


[Doc.  No.  53] 


Confederate  States  of  Am'^.'^tca,  I 
War  Department,  Richmond,  Nov.  22,  1861.     ^ 

Sir, — Will  not  your  Gonventinu  do  something  to  protect  your 
own  people  against  atrocious  crimes,  committed  on  their  persons 
and  property? 

There  are  in  the  army,  unfortunately,  some  desperate  charac- 
ters, men  gatiiered  from  the  outskirts  and  purlieus  of  large  cities, 
who  take  advantage  of  the  absence  of  the  civil  fiuthorities,  to 
commit  crimes,  even  murder,  rape  and  highway  robbery,  on  the 
peaceful  citizens  in  the  neighborhood  of  the  armies. 

For  these  oliences,  the  punishment  should  be  inflicted  by  the 
civil  authorities.  Our  people  must  not  lose  their  respect  for  law 
in  the  midst  of  the  clash  of  arms.  Some  legislation  is  abso- 
lutely indispensable  to  provide  for  changing  the  venue;  for  car- 
rying the  accused  into  some  county,  where  the  process  of  law  is 
not  prevented  by  the  presence  of  aruiies.  There  are  murderers 
now  in  insecure  custody,  at  Manassas,  who  camiot  be  tried  for 
want  of  a  court  there,  and  who  will  escape  the  just  penalty  of 
their  crimes. 

The  crimes  committed  by  these  men  are  not  military  offences. 
If  a  soldier,  rambling  through  the  country,  murders  a  farmer,  or 
violates  the  honor  of  his  wite  or  daughter,  court  martial  cannot 
properly  take  cognizance  of  the  offence,  nor  is  it  allowable  to  es- 
tablish military  commissions  or  tribunals  in  our  own  country. 

I  appeal  to  Virginian  legislators  for  protection  to  Virginians, 
and  this  appeal  will,  1  know,  be  responded  to  by  prompt  and 
efiicieut  action. 

I  am,  very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

J.  P.  BENJAAIIN, 
Secretary  of  \Var> 

To  John  Letcher, 

Governor  of  Virginia, 


87 


[DOC.  m  LIV.l 


COMMXJIsriC^TIO]>r 


FROM  THK 


PRESIDENT  OF  THE  CONFEDERATE  STATES, 


TRANSMITTING  THE  CREDETIALS  OF 


HON.  ALEXANDER  H.  STEVENS. 


i 


[Doc.  No.  54.] 


To  his  Excellency,  Jorix  Letcher, 

Governor  of  the.  State  of  Vi7'ginia,  i5'c.  ^Vc  (V*r. 

Sir, — In  response  to  your  communication,  conveying  to  me 
on  behalf  of  the  State  of  Virginia,  the  expression  of  tlie  earnest 
desire  of  that  CommonweaUli  to  enter  into  an  alhance  oflensive 
and  defensive  with  the  Confederate  States,  ar)d  being  animated 
by  a  sincere  wish  to  unite  and  bind  together  onr  respective  coun- 
tries by  friendly  ties,  I  have  appointed  Alexander  H.  Stephens, 
Vice  President  of  the  Confederate  States,  as  special  commis- 
sioner of  the  Confederate  States  to  the  Government  of  Virginia; 
and  I  have  now  the  honor  to  introdnce  him  to  you,  and  to  ask 
for  him  a  reception  and  treatment  corresponding  to  his  station, 
and  to  the  purposes  for  which  he  is  sent.  Those  purposes  he 
will  more  particularly  explain  to  you. 

Hoping  that  through  his  agency  these  may  be  accompIi.shed, 
I  avail  myself  of  this  occasion  to  offer  to  you  the  assurances  of 
my  distinguished  consideration. 

JEFFERSOxN  DAVIS. 

Montgomery,  April  19,  1861. 


[Doc.  No.  54.] 


Jefferson  Davis, 

President  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America. 

To  ALL  WHOM  THESE  PRESENTS  SHALL  CONCERX,  GREETING: 

Know  ye,  that  lor  the  purpose  ol  estabhshing  iViendly  relations 
between  the  Confederate  States  of  America  and  the  Conmion- 
wealth  of  Virginia;  and  reposing  special  trust  and  confiJcnce  in 
the  integrity,  prudence  and  ability  of  Alexander  II.  Stephens, 
Vice-President  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  ap|>ointed 
special  Commissioner  of  the  Confederate  States  to  the  Common- 
wealth of  Virginia,  I  have  invested  him  with  full  and  all  manner 
of  power,  and  authority  for,  and  in  the  name  of  the  Confederatf' 
States,  to  meet  and  confer  with  any  person  or  persons  authorized 
by  the  Government  of  Virginia,  being  furnished  with  like  power 
and  authority,  and  with  hmi  or  them  lo  agree,  teat,  consult  and 
negotiate  of,  and  concerning  all  matters  and  subjects  interesting 
to  both  republics;  and  to  conclude  a  treaty  or  treaties,  con- 
vention or  conventions,  touching  the  premises;  transmitting  the 
same  to  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States  for  his  final  rati- 
fication, by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Congress  of 
the  Confederate  States. 

In  testimony  whereof,  I  have  caused  the  .seal  of  the  Confede- 
rate States  to  be  hereunto  affixed. 

Given  under  my  hand,  at  the  city  of  Montgomery,  this  nine- 
teenth day  of  April,  A.  D.  ib'61. 

JEFFERSOiS  DAVIS. 

By  the  President: 

R.  Toombs, 

Secretary  of  State. 


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